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Saturday  Night,  May  25,  1912 


A  Night  at  the  Press  Club 
Olio 

Advance  Edition  of  Republican 
National  Convention 


PRESS  CLUB  OF  CHICAGO 

24-26  North  Dearborn  Street 


THE 

PRESS   CLUB 

of    Chicago 


26  North  Dearborn  Street 


ARTICLE  I. — NAME  AND  OBJECT. 

Section  i.  The  name  of  this  organization  shall  be  the  Press 
Club  of  Chicago. 

Section  2..  Its  object  shall  be  to  bring  members  of  the  news- 
paper, literary  and  publishing  callings  together  in  closer  personal  rela- 
tions, to  further  good  fellowship,  to  promote  the  interests  of  its  mem- 
bers and  to  provide  them  with  comfortable  club  rooms. 

ARTICLE  II. — MEMBERS. 

Section  i.  There  shall  be  five  classes  of  members:  Active,  Non- 
resident, Life,  Honorary  and  Active  Retired. 

Section  -2.  The  following  shall  be  eligible  to  active  and  non-resi- 
dent membership: 

(a)  Persons  regularly  connected  with  the  press  in  Chicago  or 
elsewhere,  as  editors,  reporters,  artists,  proprietors,  paid  correspond- 
ents or  contributors,  general  managers,  business  managers,  and  proof- 
readers of  the  daily  press. 

(b)  Persons  who  can  produce  indisputable  proof  of  having  at 
some  time  fulfilled  one  or  more  of  the  above  qualifications  on  the  press 
for  a  period  of  five  years. 

(c)  Authors  of  books  of  original  matter  and  of  literary  char- 
acter ;  publishers  and  illustrators  of  such  books,  and  of  periodicals ;  li- 
brarians, and  persons  whose  occupation  is  chiefly  literary. 

(d)  Provided,  That  the  residence  or  place  of  business  of  non- 
resident  members   must   not   be   within   the   limits   of   Cook   County, 
Illinois. 

If  eligible  and  interested,  write 
Membership  Committee, 
PRESS     CLUB    OF     CHICAGO, 
26  North  Dearborn  Street 


of   Chicago 

President Douglas    MallochV 

First  Vice-President E.  J.   Baker 

Second   Vice-President William   Emmet   Moore 

Treasurer   Harry  S.  Hyman 

Financial   Secretary B.   Beecher  Osborne 

Recording  Secretary Charles  N.  Wheeler 

Librarian Joseph  F.  Henderson 

Directors — William    R.    Barnes,    Horace    M.    Ford,    Julius    Reynolds 
Kline,  Charles  Lederer,  Edward  H.  Fox,  Stanly  H.  Twist. 

The  Presidents  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  since  its  organiza- 
tion have  been : 

1880 — Franc  B.  Wilkie.  1897 — Washington  Hesing. 

1881— W.  K.  Sullivan.  1898— William  M.  Knox. 

1882— Samuel  J.  Medill.  1899— William  M.  Knox. 

1883 — William  E.   Curtis.  1900 — John  E.  Wright. 

1884 — James  B.  Bradwell.  1901 — William  H.   Freeman. 

1885 — Joseph  R.  Dunlop.  1902 — Homer  J.  Carr. 

1886 — John  F.  Ballantyne.  1903 — Homer  J.  Carr. 

1887 — James  W.  Scott.  1904 — Homer  J.  Carr. 

1888 — James  W.  Scott.  1905 — Homer  J.  Carr. 

1890 — Stanley  Waterloo.  1906 — John  J.  Flinn. 

1891 — W.  A.  Taylor.  1907 — John  J.  Flinn. 

1892— John  E.  \Vilkie.  1908— Richard  H.  Little. 

1893 — Stanley  Waterloo.  1909 — Henry  B.  Chamberlin. 

1894 — Frank  A.  Vanderlip.  1910 — John  C.  Shaffer. 

1895 — A.  T.  Packard.  1911 — Charles  H.  Sergei. 

1896 — Joseph  Medill.  1912 — Douglas  Malloch.  * 


The 

Duntley  Mfg 

Company 


6O6  Michigan  Avenue 

Harvester  Building 

CHICAGO 


Saves 
Time 


Many  uses  and 
full  directions  on 
large  sifter-can  ICH 


•Let 

Hartman 
Feather 
Your  Nest." 


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Printing 


KINGSBURY  AND  SUPERIOR  STS. 
CHICAGO 

One  of  the  largest  printing  plants  in  America,  having  a  capacity 
of  over  100  tons  finished  product  per  day.  Completely  equipped 
with  modern  machinery,  built  especially  to  our  order,  for  the 
expeditious  and  economical  handling  of  large  contracts,  which 
are  under  personal  supervision  of  officers  of  the  company. 


OLDEST  SAVINGS  BANK  IN  CHICAGO 


THE  HIBERNIAN 

Banking  Association 


ESTABLISHED  1867 

S.  E.  Cor.  S.  Clark  and   W.  Monroe  Sts. 


SAVINGS  DEPARTMENT 

Deposits  of  One  Dollar  or  more  received,  on  which  interest 
is  allowed  at  the  rate  of  3  per  cent  per  annum,  compounded 
half-yearly. 

Open  SATURDAY  NIGHTS  from  6:00  to  8:00  o'clock. 

BOND  DEPARTMENT 

Offers  a  carefully  selected  list  of  Municipal,  Railroad  and 
Corporation  Bonds,  suitable  for  trust  funds,  banks  and  private 
investment. 

BANKING  DEPARTMENT 

Invites  on  favorable  terms  the  accounts  of  individuals,  firms 
and  corporations. 

TRUST  DEPARTMENT 

Authorized  by  law  to  accept  and  execute  trusts  of  all  kinds. 

REAL  ESTATE  DEPARTMENT 

Buys  and  sells  real  estate  on  commission;  collects  rents, 
manages  estates;  sells  high-grade  mortgages;  makes  loans  on 
improved  real  estate. 

The'capital  stock  of  this  bank  is  owned  by  the  stockholders 
of  the  Continental  and  Commercial  National  Bank  of  Chicago. 


Fort  Dearborn  Fort  Dearborn 

National  Bank  Trust  ..Savings Bank 

United  States  Depositary    Security  and  Conservatism 


Capital  .  .  .  $2,000,000 
Surplus  and  Profits  600,000 
Deposits  .  .  .  27,000,000 


OFFICERS 

WM.  A.  TILDEN.  President 

NELSON  N.  LAMPERT, 

Vice-Pr  esident 

J.  FLETCHER  FARRELL, 

Vice- President 

HENRY  R.  KENT.  Cashier 

GEORGE  H.  WILSON, 

Asst.  Cashier 
CHARLES  FERNALD. 

Asst.  Cashier 

THOMAS  E.  NEWCOMER, 

Asst.  Cashier 
HARRY  LAWTON 

Manager,  Foreign  Dept. 


Comparative  Showing  of 
Deposits 

February  14,  1908 $  9,887,954.84 

February  5, 1909 11,617,691.24 

March  29,  1910 15,041,357.21 

March  7,  1911 21,574,956.79 

June  7, 1911 23,137,746.88 

September  1,  1911 24,500,075.82 

December  5,  1911 25,445,199.89 

February  20,  1912 26,207,446.32 

April  18,  1912.  .  ..27,287,752.30 


Three  per  cent  interest  on  savings 
accounts. 

Deposits    made    on  or  before  the 
tenth   of  each  month    bear    interest 
from  the  first. 

The  officers  of  the  Fort 
Dearborn  Trust  and  Sav- 
ings Bank  offer  their  ser- 
vices to  clients  who  are 
seeking  choice  high  grade 
bonds  and  seasoned  se- 
curities. 

Acts  as  Administrator, 
Executor,  Guardian, 
Conservator,  Assignee, 
Receiver,  Transfer  Agent 
and  Registrar. 

In  fiduciary  capacity  as  agent  makes 
investments,  collections  and  disburse- 
ments. 


OFFICERS 

WM.  A.  TILDEN President 

NELSON  N.  LAMPERT Vice-President 

JOHN  E.  SHEA Cashier 

CHAS.  A.  TILDEN Asst.  Cashier 

STANLEY  G.  MILLER Manager,  Bond  Dept. 

E.  C.  GLENNY Secy,  and  Trust  Officer 


DEPOSIT  VAULTS 


HERBERT  C.  ROER,  Manager 


We  invite  the  accounts  of  Banks,  Individuals,  Corporations  and  Firms 
who  appreciate  banking  efficiency.  Personal  and  courteous  attention. 


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HERMAN  J.  ELIEL  JACOB  M.  LOEB 

ELIEL  &  LOEB 

Fire  Insurance 


Insurance  Exchange,  Chicago 


GENERAL  AGENTS 


Pittsburgh  Underwriters  of  Pennsylvania 
Allemannia  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  Pennsylvania 
Humboldt  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  Pennsylvania 
Teutonia  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  Pennsylvania 
Citizens  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  West  Virginia 
United  States  Underwriters  of  New  York 
Union  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Keystone  Underwriters  of  Pennsylvania 
Birmingham  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  Pennsylvania 


Telephone  Wabash  3961 


Chicago  Title  and 
Trust  Company 

TITLE  AND  TRUST  BUILDING 


Makes  Abstracts  of  Title 

Guarantees  Titles  to  Real  Estate 

Transacts  a  General  Trust  Business 


Assets  Exceed 

$7,500,000.00 


HARRISON  B.  RILEY  President 

A.  R.  MARRIOTT  Vice -President 

WM.  C.  NIBLACK  V.-P.  and  Trust  Officer 

JNO.  A.  RICHARDSON  3rd  Vice-President 

W.  R.  FOLSOM  Treasurer 

J.  M.  BALL  Secretary 

OFFICERS 

GEORGE  BIRKHOFF,  JR.  CHARLES  L.  BARTLETT 

IRA  M.  COBE  J.  LEWIS  COCHRAN 

BERNARD  A.  ECKHART  JAMES  B.  FORGAN 

DAVID  B.  LYMAN  A.  R.  MARRIOTT 

WM.  C.  NIBLACK  GEORGE  E.  RICKCORDS 

EDWARD  A.  SHEDD  OTTO  C.  BUTZ 

E.  A.  CUMMINGS  MARVIN  A.  FARR 

NATHAN  G.  MOORE  HARRISON  B.  RILEY 
NOBLE  B.  JUDAH 


Babcock, 


&  Co. 

Stocks,  Bonds,  Grain, 

Provisions,  Investment 

Securities 


MEMBERS 

New  York  Stock  Exchange 
Chicago  Stock  Exchange 
Chicago  Board  of  Trade 


7  Wall  Street 
New  York 


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PLAT  OF 

JOHN  A.  BROWN'S  ADDITION 

TO  GLEN  ELLYN,  ILL. 


Home,  Sweet  Home 

I  shall  touch  briefly  upon  a  subject  enshrined  in  every  heart  here.  We  are  soon  to  return  to  our 
homes,  and  it  is  of  the  home  that  I  would  speak.  The  object  of  all  righteous  legislation  is  the 
preservation  of  the  fireside,  the  glory  of  the  home.  The  future  of  the  American  Republic  rests 
on  the  American  home.  And  what  grander  task  could  occupy  humanity  than  the  consecration 
of  the  home?  A  wanderer  in  a  distant  land  who  felt  the  loneliness  and  pain  which  only  those 
without  a  home  can  know,  enshrined  in  deathless  melody  the  truest  sentiment  that  ever  dwelt  in 

human  heart  or  rose 
on  mortal  lip;  ''Home 
sweet  home,'1  he 
cried,  and  immortal- 
ity echoed  the  re- 
frain. 

I  know  that  Apollo 
swept  such  harmony 
from  the  lyre  that  the 
listening  gods  were 
charmed  and  the  world 
acclaimed  him  deity  of 
song.  I  know  that 
Orpheus,  with  magic 
strain,  led  rocks  and 
trees  and  beasts  to  fol- 
low him  and  so  enthrall- 
ed the  underworld  that 
angels  gazed  thereon 
with  envy.  I  know  that 
Timotheus,  with  won- 
drous melody,  subdued 
the  riotous  Alexander, 
awoke  within  his  hauty 
soul  emotions  high  as 
heaven.  I  know  that 
David  drew  from  his 
entrancing  harp  a  con- 
cord that  dispelled  the 
gloom  about  the  brow 
of  Saul  and  flooded 
Israel's  palaces  with  the 
laughter  of  music  and 
the  joy  of  song.  I  know 
that  when  Cecelia  sang 
angels  were  fascinated 
and  men  enraptured.  I 
know  that  Eleanor's 
troubadours  at  Antioch 
bewitched  the  Syrian  air 
with  the  ballads  of  the 
south  and  lightened  the 
horrors  of  the  second 
crusade.  I  know  that 
Palestrina,  Handel,  Mo- 
zart, Beethoven,  and  the 
rest  have  vastly  elevated 
man  with  symphonies 
sublime.  But  I  know 
tnat  all  of  these,  com- 
bined by  a  master, 
greater  than  those  who 
as  yet  have  lived,  into 
one  gorgeous  rhapsody, 
can  equal  not  the  touch- 
ing cadence  and  the  sim- 
ple majesty  of  "Home, 
sweet  home." 

Permit  me  to  direct 
your  attention  to 
my  addition  to 
Glen  Ellyn  as 
an  ideal  lo- 
cation for 
your 
home 

JOHN  A. 
BROWN 


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No  matter  what  room  you  wish  to  furnish  nor 
what  price  you  wish  to  pay,  you  will  find  in  our 
large  and  varied  line  just  what  you  wish. 

Every  piece  of  Karpen  Furniture  is  trade- 
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RECORD-HERALD 

FRIDAY    MORNING     MAY    3.     1912-SI  XTEEN    PAGES 


MAY   TELEPHONE    TROUBLES 


CESTRtVU  4f8lct?  IS  SMITH 
THERE'S - 


Not  only  in  May 

But  every  day, 

The  "Girlie"  phone  is  erratic. 

You  can  keep  your  seat — 

Don't  have  to  repeat — 

When  using  the  automatic. 


THE  City  Department  — 
WESTERN  NEWSPAPER 
UNION  —  is  a  separate  and  dis- 
tinct plant  organized  to  handle 
exclusively  trade  journals  and 
magazines  for  the  local  publishers. 

The  plant  comprises  eighteen 
linotype  machines,  eighteen 
Miehle  presses  and  bindery  and 
mailing  facilities  of  equal  capacity 
— a  night  and  day  organization 
formed  with  the  one  prime  object 
in  view-  SERVICE! 

Do  you  get  it  ? 

521  WEST  ADAMS  STREET 

Phone  Franklin  666 


THE  PRESS  CLUB  OF  CHICAGO 


By  John  McGovcrn 


i. 

The  great  chamber  in  which  we  gather  to- 
night has  been  the  scene  of  some  of  the 
most  distinguished  meetings  in  this  world  in 
these  times.  The  President  of  the  United 
States  (its  most  learned  and  eloquent  Presi- 
dent, too,  Benjamin  Harrison)  dedicated  it; 
Adelina  Patti's  thrush-like  song  was  the  first 
to  echo  out  of  its  increasing  arches.  This 
hall,  one  of  a  half-dozen  first-class  places  of 
social  rendezvous  in  civilization,  was  con- 
ceived and  made  by  Ferdinand  Peck,  who  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago 
for  twenty-five  years.  These  increasing  arch- 
es of  fire  and  ivory  (as  well  as  the  golden 
portal  of  the  Transportation  Building,  in 
1893)  were  and  are  the  creation  of  Louis  H. 
Sullivan,  also  a  member  of  our  Club. 

Nor  has  the  Press  Club,  during  the  his- 
tory of  its  younger  brother-institution,  the 
Auditorium,  failed  to  bring  hither  as  tribute 
celebrations  of  its  own  no  less  memorable 
than  the  others. 

On  the  night  of  April  27,  1895,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Press  Club,  a  great  assem- 
blage celebrated  the  birthday  of  General  U.  S. 
Grant  in  the  presence  of  Julia  Dent  Grant,  his 
widow.  An  oration  was  delivered  by  Gen- 
eral O.  O.  Howard,  a  comrade  of  Grant.  A 
cathedral  choir  sang,  the  big  audience  joined 
heartily  in  the  patriotic  airs  that  were  ren- 
dered, and  the  great  widow's  heart  was  deeply 
touched,  as  the  Club's  archives  attest. 

February  12,  1892,  Colonel  Ingersoll  here 
first  delivered  his  eulogium  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, and  before  the  Press  Club  with  6,700 
guests.  One  thousand  people  were  seated  on 
the  stage  that  night. 

Here  Senator  Chauncey  M.  Depew  ad- 
dressed an  audience  of  great  size,  and  most 
generously  and  unexpectedly  turned  the  pro- 
ceds,  nearly  $3,000  net,  into  the  Club's  treas- 
ury. It  was  his  own  club,  he  said,  "Why 
not?" 

Here  Henry  Watterson,  Dr.  Gunsaulus,  De- 
Witt  Talmage  and  other  great  men  have 
dwelt,  in  pleasing  periods,  on  the  history  and 


usefulness  of  the  Press  Club,  and  here  it  is 
probable  the  future  people  of  this  same  Press 
Club  of  Chicago  will  continue  to  meet  to 
mark  the  increasing  years  under  the  glitter- 
ing increasing  arches. 

Before  the  Auditorium  was  built  George 
Carpenter,  one  of  our  members,  had  erected 
Central  Music  Hall.  After  his  death,  his 
noble  widow  set  aside  the  use  of  Central 
Music  Hall  for  the  Press  Club  at  least  once 
a  year  for  more  than  a  decade.  The  Press 
Club,  with  Dr.  Gunsaulus  as  orator,  cele- 
brated the  very  last  night  of  that  great  land- 
mark of  art  and  culture,  before  it  gave  way 
to  dry-goods.  It  was  through  the  portals  of 
Central  Music  Hall  that-  -James  Whitcomb 
T^iley,  Bill  Nye,  Mark  TwairI>-George  Ken- 
nan,  Joseph  Hatbsu^Jkd*— Btirdette  and  Col. 
Chaille-Long  entered  the  Press  Club. 

II. 

I  think  no  man  could,  can,  or  will  describe 
the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  itself,  either  gen- 
erally or  categorically,  or  do  justice  to  its 
membership. 

It  is  like  going  out  in  the  night  to  describe 
the  stars — "the  universe."  There  are  in  sight 
more  stars  than  we  can  ever  see,  and  yet  this 
spectacle  as  a  whole  will  be  presented  a  little 
differently  every  night  for  a  whole  year.  That 
misty  star  yonder  in  Hercules,  this  summer 
night,  is  itself  a  sphere  of  stars — 60,000  stars. 

So,  as  time  has  passed  with  our  association, 
there  was  a  different  aspect  of  the  Press 
Club  each  month,  each  year.  And  no  one  man 
could  alone  see  a  single  one  of  these  great 
mental  spectacles  entire. 

The  Press  Club  is  inextricably  knitted  with 
TEe~  thirty^two principal  years  of  Chicago's 
existence — with  Chicago's  geniuses,  great- 
hearts,  and  goodfellows.  The  lives  of  these 
men  have  added  their  influence  to  the  history 
of  the  modern  world. 

In  this  fragment  of  description  I  must 
mainly  use  mere  names  (and  only  a  few  of 
the  whole  number)  as  symbols  of  great 
achievements,  of  keen  enjoyments,  of  noble 


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emotions.  Often  there  is  a  book  in  each  name 
or  phrase.  Such  is  that  nowAever-living  in- 
choate, past,  present  and  future  thing — the 
Press  Club  of  Chicago.  It  is  an  important 
mental  phase  of  that  same  force,  which,  in  a 
physical  form,  is  known  over  the  world  as 
the  Chicago  Construction. 

Therefore,  entirely  as  symbols  and  parts  of 
the  indescribable  whole,  accept  to  their  very 
end  these  hurried  glimpses : 

In  the  atmosphere  of  the  Press  Club  of 
Chicago  there  were  developed :  Qpie  Read's, 
"Jucklins,"  "Starbucks,"  "Tennessee  Judge'' 
and  a  hundred  other  characters ;  Finley  Peter 
Dunne's  Irish  dialectal  philosophy  (so  truly 
"greaO  ;J^gQrgeAje's  fables  in  slang;  Stan- 
ley  Waterloo'sAlT  tn"e  cave-man  (highly  ap- 
preciated By  Jack  London)  ;  Melville  Stone's 
newsgathering  ideas;  Dr.  Keeley's  gokj,  cure 
(Joseph  Medill  aidingj";  Chas.  Eugene  Banks.' 
Banner  of  Go/</;JFrank 


and  Reginald  DeKoven's  operas;  Henry 
Carleton's     nMemnon ''    and     Gilded     Fool" ; 

^Ben    King's   "If     I    Should   Die  To-Night?"; 

"Dick    LiTHe"s   war   camera   and     kaleidoscopic 


fancies ;  William  E.  Curtis'  scrap-book ;  Griz 
^Adams'  vestibule  train ;  Demson's  Azt?ec  phil- 
ology and  Vinjng's  X^hinese  studies ;  Paul 
Carus'  Open  Court;  J^Iarry  Greene's  incom^" 
^arable  lumber-jack ;  Vrank  Holme~and  Kirke 
LaSheJk's  Banderlog;  John  T.  McCutcHeon's 


Tog :  Alva  Milton  Kefr'sjboys'  ^stories  ;  limes t 
McGaffey's  ever-living  song  (his  swan-song, 
above  all)  ;  Col.  Norton's  "Ten  Men  of  Mon- 
ey Island";  John  Ritchie's  "Hassan" ;  Steely 
Mackaye's  S"pectatorium  dream ;  George JHorr 
i's  Greece ;  Edward  Rose  and"p"aul  Potter^ 

_  ,  ^ ~Red 

Book 


Douglas    Malloch's    forest  verse;    Col. 
William     LighlfoOt    V^isscher's    Harp 


tional;  Frank  Putnam's  dainty  lady  in  the 
woods  ;  TtmtTeTs  Bohermji  (by  the  aid  of 
Leroy  Armstrong)  ;  MrsT  Steenberg's  White 
City  Club  (Banks  helping)  ;  Theresa  bean's 
101  Club  (Boylan  helping)  ;  the  CypheF  LTulj 
(Dr.  Nutt  helping)  ;  several  OwPClubsj  the 
City  Club;  the  Commerce  Association  (out  of 
the  Boosters.'ou'rot  the  Press  Club)  ;  S.  T.  K. 
Prime's  first  crop  index  ;  jForrest  Crissey^ 
utilities  ;  George  Plumbe's'_News~  Almana^; 
John  Finerty's~Citt5efl;  vVillard  Smith's  Rail- 
way  Age;  Defebaugh's  i  great  Lunibermg^  (out 
of  that,  Fuller,  Johnson,  Cobb)7john  Willy's 
hotel  press;  Dan  Stern's  American  Artisan; 
D^)\vsFV~ta'uridry  press  ; 


Howse,  and  Frank  Woodward's  summe£-nark 

"work;  Col.  Dudley's  Owl;  Louis  Houseman's 

athletics ;  George   Weber's  ecumenical  jeuille- 

tons;  Byron  Andrews'  "Nut-Shell" ;  Shepard^s 

Inland   ^Printer;     Bancroft's      (an?     Charlie 

Blakely  s)     prodigious    "Boojc    of    the    Fair  , 

^i,UUU   tne   copy;  ^Valsh's   news   distribution^ 

"Halligan's  Illustrated  World's  Pair;  the 

"Wegiaii    IHeialuie    ot    feer    Stromme ;    Andy/ 

Howard 
work; 


tTarheroil'S    Eig"ht    HOUrs; 


and     John     Corwin's 

Krausz'  ancient  coins:  Df.  George 


hocian 
political     press 


ler  and 


tJOrlnets  ;    Dr.    Rubinkam 


of 


Mcmual ;  Willie  Eaton  and  li 

Scott 's~Chicago   Herafd ;     Ignatius    Donnelley, 

(afid     Schulte's)     "Caesars     Column";    Billy 

"Knox  and  Billy  Hyde's  Beat 

of  syndkrates ;  Harry  Hunt's 
United  Press ;  Slasotx1 1'hornpstfffs  uewapaiKTis 
and  bure^usiJra^  Burrelle's  clippings ;  An- 
dreas'  /Chti&^go.T;  Fred  Coo^^Early  Days" ; 
"jNTxon/ WaWrman's^&SQd  "cheer  :  Dr.  Rowe's 
money  trust;  WiJi 
Edgar  Wakeman's 


French's    ytvpe-merger : 

Current/  Wilbur^  WakernafTThd  Tod  Cowles 

Thrifty  League ;    John    Z.    White,    and    Couis 

^H o oTi^dd>'  lyTcPh elim's  Art — 
Biff   Hall's 


Labor's  ^air^haired  chiid" 


"urnoyer  andForty  Clubs  ;  Charlie  Leclere£s^ 
)HH!ogTaph-like'~cartoons;   Joe   Chappie's  No,-, 


Mangasarian's  addresses'TlCohlsaat  and  Henry 
Wendorff's  color-press  pioneering  ;  Gayton 
Douglas'  colored^photography;  Earl  Marble 
Tmd  Col.  Bundy's  "spirits"  ;  Lester  Hubbard's 

[ough, 


"Corriing  Climax^;  Emersgn 
Beach,  and  McCutcH^oTrTTjest-sellers;  Byron 
Williams'  (Uncle  By)  aiT3  Eugene  Hall's 
philosophy  and  homely  rhymes ;  Lyman  E. 
Cooley  and  Oss+jfn  Guthrie's  drainage  canal ; 
Stedrpan  aij4^L)arrow's  Socialism ;  Samuel 

ae'ri^Gross'  "Merchant  Prince  of  Corn- 
Emil  Freund's  vast  mental  Bourse; 
Clinton  Furbish's  Pan  America;  that  circle  of 
good  fellowship  where  Dr.  Frank  Reilly,  Jack 
Shea,  John  Zimmerman,  Fred  Hild  and  Frank 
Morris  sat  welcome  so  long  before  Death 
called  the  closing  hour ; — I  must  not  go  on ; 
I  must  leave  all  unbegun. 

In  the  empire  of  Bohemia  the  actors  as 
well  as  the  newspaper  workers  have  a  proucjf 
realm,  and  to  the  generous  friendship  of  the 
most  generous  of  professions  the  Press  Club 
owes  a  big  part  of  its  existence.  Pictures 
given  by  Mr.  McVicker  were,  I  believe,  the 
very  first  to  hang  on  our  walls  (George  and 
Martha  Washington),  yet  we  have  no  por- 
trait of  the  great  and  modest  Mr.  McVicker 
himself.  Will  Davis  and  Harry  Hamlin  were 
always  helpers — and  Harry  Powers  (and 
Richard  Hooley  before  him). 


The  nights  when  Mr.  Booth — when  Salvini, 
Lawrence  Barrett,  Irving,  McCullough,  Mans- 
field, Mantell,  Warde,  Keene,  Wyndham, 
Goodwin,  Willard,  Tree,  Wilson  Barrett, 
Thome,  Robson  and  Crane,  Patti,  Nilsson, — 
were  separately  and  repeatedly  received ; — 
the  nights  when  song  was  programmed  with 
little  Blatchford  Kavanaugh,  with  Tagliapie- 
tra,  Clarence  Whitehill,  Myron  Whitney, 
Jamet,  Plangon,  Barnabee,  Hugh  Williams ; 
with  Johnnie  McWade,  Hubert  Wilkie,  Mc- 
Donald, Knorr,  Sweet,  Drill ;  with  Hopper, 
Cottrelly  and  Boniface;  Jennie  Dutton,  Lilli 
Lehman,  Litta,  Emma  Abbott;  with  Digby 
Bell,  Willie  Collier — (again  I  must  cease)  — 
on  these  nights  Chicago  was  en  soiree  at  the 
Press  Club — Chicago  was  happy,  though  the 
hour  might  be  entirely  unsuburban. 

The  educational  musicians  also  were  not 
behind  the  actors  in  their  generous  desire  to 
aid  the  Club.  We  always  had  at  call  the 
elite  of  the  elder  Florence  Ziegfeld's  college — 
I  especially  remember  Falk,  Hyllested,  Gotts- 
chalk,  and  the  fine  string  quartette.  Eddy, 
Liebling  and  Wilde  played  at  the  Club's  every 
wish.  Earl  Drake  played  for  us  25  years 
before  we  had  the  honor  to  hear  his  own 
orchestral  symphony  rendered.  Through  the 
32  years  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walton  Perkins,  I 
think,  have  been  the  most  generous  and  faith- 
ful among  a  generous  all.  The  Club  felt  that 
Fannie  Bloomfield  (Zeisler)  was  great  before 
she  took  rank  with  or  above  the  great  Car- 
reno.  Julia  Rive  (King)  was  often  at  the 
Club. 

Carl  Hild  and  his  wife  (violin  and  piano) 
came  from  a  great  Berlin  orchestra.  Would 
they  had  prospered  in  Chicago!  They  loved 
the  Club.  Their  rendition  of  a  "Faust"  fan- 
tasia I  did  not  hear  Wieniawski  and  Rubin- 
stein themselves  improve  upon — or  equal ! 

Perhaps  the  far-and-away  novelties  of  their 
ancient  time  came  with  the  "stags"  in  which 
the  Midway  Plaisance  revealed  its  forthcom- 
ing panoply  of  races  and  oriental  music.  We 
shall  not  soon  forget  the  voo-doo  giant  from 
Dahomey,  and  h'is  night  at  the  Club — nor  the 
dark  Amazon,  covered  with  scars  of  battle. 
Our  Col.  Ayme  had  been  a  chum  of  Capt. 
Pene. 

.' 

Of  the  editor-publishers,  Mr.  Lawson,  Mr. 
Stone,  Mr.  Scott,  Mr.  Kohlsaat,  Mr.  Medill, 
Mr.  Patterson,  Mr.  Keeley,  Mr.  Nixon,  Mr. 
West,  Mr.  Hinman,  Mr.  Shaffer,  Mr.  East- 
man, Mr.  Hearst,  Mr.  Lawrence,  Mr.  Hes- 


ing,  Mr.  Chaiser,  Mr.  Raster,  Mr.  Anderson, 
aided  the  Club  at  all  times.  In  the  end — con- 
sidering all  things,  too — absolutely  all  were 
and  are  full-handed  friends. 

It  has  pleased  "the  boys"  to  see  William 
Jennings  Bryan  (a  member)  at  hand  so  often. 
And  our  Plutarchs  have  felt  that  they  espy 
in  him  a  true  political  parallel  to  the  long- 
peerless  Henry  Clay. 

III. 

If  the  printers'  union  of  the  long-ago  were 
the  first  notable  symptom  of  the  necessity  of 
trust  and  merger  in  the  Industrial  or  Factory 
Age,  then  associations  like  the  Press  Club  of 
Chicago  were  the  second  symptom,  and  grew 
out  of  the  first. 

In  civil-war-times,  and  before,  there  were 
usually  two  newspapers  in  an  American  city — 
or  four  (two  morning  and  two  evening). 

It  was  newspaper  law  and  doctrine  to  hate 
the  "crowd"  in  the  other  camp,  and  to  lie 
about  them. 

The  two  morning  papers  of  each  city  catered 
to  the  two  forces  in  society — the  so-called 
"moral"  and  the  so-called  "immoral".  In  Chi- 
cago, for  instance,  the  Times,  edited  by  Wil- 
bur F.  Storey,  was  the  Barber's  Delight;  it 
was  the  organ  of  Third  avenue,  Fourth  ave- 
nue, Jackson  street,  Quincy  street,  Conley's 
Patch,  Tilden  avenue.  The  Tribune,  on  the 
other  hand,  was  taken  in  Evanston  (then  as 
now  a  holy  city),  Hyde  Park,  Maywood,  Oak 
Park,  on  Wabash  avenue  and  on  Pine  street. 
As  a  reward  of  virtue  it  had  the  small  ads. 
But  the  "wicked"  paper  had  the  greater  cir? 
culation  for  the  time. 

Storey  as  early  as  the  60's  proclaimed  Jlim- 
self  a  social  Ishmael.  His  Rockford/  libel, 
and  his  "Walks  Among  the  Churches/  (week- 
ly calls  of  so-called  moral  sanitation  and 
animadversion  in  the  various  religious  parishes 
of  Chicago)  increased  the  personal  hatreds 
of  the  man  that  had  been  aroused  by  his 
course  as  a  Copperhead  during  the  Civil  War. 

Such  was  the  unpromising  social  soil  in 
which  a  Chicago  Press  Club  must  begin.  It 
is  needless  to  say  that  there  were  several  fail- 
ures. The  first  old  Press  Club  that  I  know  of 
occupied  rooms  in  McVicker's  Theatre.  Elias 
Colbert,  the  astronomer,  still  has  a  copy  of  its 
charter.  Its  failure  led  directly  to  the  insti- 
tution of  the  Owl  Club,  in  the  same  central 
location — a  bohemian  association  that  offered 
occasional  parties  for  men  and  women,  and 
by  its  partial  success  gave  evidence  that  the 
time  for  a  permanent  Press  Club  was  near. 


This  time  probably  depended  in  the  main  on 
the  entry  of  third  newspapers  into  the  morn- 
ing and  evening  fields.  Charles  A.  Dana  came 
on  to  Chicago  with  the  (morning)  Repub- 
lican (now  the  Inter  Ocean),  and,  after  the 
Mail,  the  News  was  started  by  Melville  E. 
Stone  and  Bill  Dougherty,  reporters  from  the 
Mail  and  Tribune. 

The  initial  movement  for  the  Press  Club 
of  Chicago  itself  came  from  the  Storey  camp. 
Their  generalissimo,  Frank  B.  Wilkie  (we 
young  fellows  called  him  Mr.  Wilkie — as  we 
said  "Mr.  Booth";)  consulted  with  Melville 
Stone.  There  was  a  group  of  young  men  on 
the  Inter  Ocean  with  Elwyn  A.  Barren  as 
their  leader  or  mentor,  and  they  favored  the 
idea.  Sam  Medill  (brother  of  Joseph),  who 
was  city  editor  of  the  Tribune,  also  thought 
well  of  it. 

The  owl  car  was  next  put  on  the  streets  at 
night,  and  the  night-workers  began  to  ride 
home  together  at  late  hours  instead  of  walk- 
ing home  by  themselves,  and  thus  a  new 
modus  vivendum  was  not  only  possible  but 
necessary.  Each  side  found  the  devil  not 
nearly  so  black  as  he  had  been  painted,  and 
also  the  incoming  men  on  the  new  papers 
were  not  interested  in  the  hoary  resentments 
arising  out  of  the  old  "scoops." 

In  the  end  it  came  about  that  we  gratefully 
regarded  Mr.  Wilkie  as  "founder  of  the  Press 
Club."  His  obsequies,  at  McVicker's  Theatre, 
conducted  by  Dr.  Thomas  under  the  direction 
of  the  Press  Club,  in  1892,  may  be  named  as  a 
historic  and  a  civic  event.  Mr.  Wilkie  was 
the  first  President ;  his  son  John  E.  Wilkie, 
then  city  editor  of  the  Tribune,  now  Chief  of 
the  United  States  Secret  Service,  was  also 
President  during  the  year  of  the  founder's 
death,  and  Mr.  Wilkie  died  full  of  honor. 

IV. 


The  Press  Club  was  started  (January,  1880) 
in  rooms  on  the  third  floor  of  Morrison's 
building,  on  the  east  side  of  Clark  street,  a 
door  north  of  Madison.  There  it  abode  for^ 
eighteen  years.  It  had  no  elevator;  it  needed 
noner  Madame  Patti  climbed  the  stairs — it 
was  easier  for  her  than  it  was  for  Jim  Scott, 
and  he  never  complained.  Morrison  was  the 
ideal  bohemian  landlord.  May  the  blessings 
of  all  the  fairies  of  the  wee  sma'  hours  rest 
upon  him ! 

From  memorable  old  Clark  street  Billy  Knox 
and  J^rank  Johnson  led~the  dub  across  Madi-, 
i>OTr  Strget^to  Mussey's,  and  there,  under  the 
magic  touch  of  our  own  architect,  Henry 
Lord  Gay,  (now  in  San  Diego)  was  set  up 


probably  the  finest  bohemian  garret  the  world 

has  yet  known.     It  was  190  feet  in  length,  50 

feet  wide,  and  part  of  it  was  handsomely  and 

cleverly  double-decked.     Its  halls   were  noble 

and  spacious.     About  2,000  of  Chicago's  elite 

came  to  give  it  the  city's  blessing,  one  perfect 

_night  in  June,  1898,  and  Luther  Lafflin  Mills_ 

~Hedicatecl  it  lor  its  decade  as  our~home! The" 

assemblage  of  notable  people  that  night  filled 

three  floors  of  the  unopened  Mussey's  below. 

It  was  surely  a  fair  start. 

And  it  was  a  good  finish.     For  in  ten  more 


years  the  Club  was  ready  to  take  the  old 
quarters  ot  the  University  Club,  paying  about 
$loU,UUU  lor  the  building  and  lease  oi  TjJreT 
maining  years,  and  establishing  itself  on  a 
very  Fifth  avenue  or  Broadway  of  Bohemia. 
The  Press  Club  Building  now  stands  eig*n7 
stories  high  at  26  North  Dearborn  street7"orr 
trie  very  loF  where  our  founder.  Mr 


("Poliuto")     wrote    his     "Walks    about 

q '\  a  brilliant  series  of  papers  that  broug 
Hundreds  of  thousands  of  good  persons  hith- 
er, to  become  residents  of  the  new  city. 
During  our  temporary  stay  on  Fifth  avenue, 


n  l)8,~ while  awaiting  the  vacation  of  the 
new  quarters,  It  may  be  recorded  that  we 
buried  David  Henderson  and  Harold  Vynne 
with  the  high  honors  due  to  them.  Dick  Little 
and  Dwight  Allyn  (President  and  Financial 
Secretary  that  year)  attended  closely  to  busi- 
ness and  absolutely  cleaned  up  a  great  floating 
debt.  Praise  could  not  be  greater  than  that — 
in  bohemia ! 

With  our  present  Press  Club  Building,  prob- 
ably the  majority  of  this  audience  are  duly 
familiar.  vThe  Press  Club — the  dove  of  hope — 
the  inspiration  of  the  good,  that  brings  glad- 
ness— this  carrier  has  homed.  Its  cote  is  eight 
stories  high,  in  the  center  of  the  Union  Loop — 
in  Chicago. 

We  have  at  Mount  Hope,  also,  a  tall  monu- 
ment, reaching  far  up  among  the  trees.  There 
lie,  we  trust  in  immortality,  some  of  our  best- 
known  dead — Canfield,  who  could  write  most 
and  best  in  shortest  time;  Sam  Steele,  who 
gave  out  all  the  official  newspaper  copy  of 
the  World's  Fair  of  1893;  David  Henderson, 
who  "put  on"  Janssen,  Cottrelly,  Hopper,  Foy, 
Yohe,  etc. ;  Cornelius  McAuliff,  who  swore 
the  Herald  and  its  hyphens  to  press  heroically 
for  twenty-five  years,  and  died  for  it ;  Charlie 
Almy,  our  greatest  wit;  Gentile,  who  took  the 
fire  pictures;  James  Maitland,  who  wrote  the 
Slang  Dictionary;  and  Oliver  Perry,  our  most 
beloved  one  of  all. 

The  monument  was  placed  in  position  some 


years  before  we  left  Clark  street.  Under  the 
Greek  colonnade,  before  the  park  of  most 
various  trees  at  calm  Mount  Hope,  Luther 
Laflin  Mills  (that  gentle  one  who  was  Booth's 
Hamlet  off  the  stage)  delivered  the  oration, 
and,  with  solemn  but  beautiful  eye,  dedicated 
to  hopeful  sleep  our  great  bohemian  dead. 

V. 

I  have  been  often  asked  just  how  things 
went  en  famille  in  bohemia,  where  it  is  sup- 
posed there  are  no  hours,  and  can  be  no  fam- 
ily. Well,  speaking  of  the  first  quarter-cen- 
tury, generally,  there  was  always  forthcoming 
some  altruistic  greatheart  who  was  the  Club 
for  the  time  being — that  is,  the  baser  practical 
but  most  necessary  part  of  the  Club.  The 
Club  rented  rooms  (as  noted)  early  in  1880. 
At  that  time,  Sam  Steele,  Theodore  Geste- 
feldt,  Leo  Canman  and  "Little  Dick"  (M.  E. 
Dickson)  were  the  true  yeomen.  They  dealt 
with  the  colored  question,  bought  fauteuils 
with  the  poker-rake,  borrowed  potted  plants 
for  swell  receptions,  sold  tickets,  and 
dragooned  new  members.  Socially,  we  owed 
a  great  deal  to  Tod  Cowles  and  to  John  B. 
Jefery.  Then  Edgar  Wakeman.  Then,  while 
Wakeman  went  to  see  the  Wagnerian  Passion 
Play  in  Bavaria,  Harry  Ballard  was  the  Club. 
Then  Judge  Bradwell,  Kisch  and  Harry  Hunt 
arrived,  the  other  yeomen  remaining  no  less 
faithful.  George  Schneider,  the  banker,  was  a 
fairy  godfather  of  those  days.  I  remember  he 
gave  the  Club  the  five-dollar  Greenback,  S?ries 
A,  No.  1.  It  was  lost  along  with  our  first 
charter,  when  one  of  our  Treasurer's  private 
papers  burned. 

For  many  years  the  Club  was  so  organiz2d 
that  the  Financial  Secretary  had  full  domestic 
power  while  he  retained  the  confidence  first  of 
the  Club  and  next  of  a  majority  of  the  Direc- 
tors. "The  Club"  was  the  meeting  on  the 
second  Sunday  afternoon  of  each  month.  A 
better  form  of  government  has  not  been  de- 
vised, where  the  property  interests  are  less 
than  five  or  ten  thousand  dollars.  Liberty 
and  Equality  triumphed  completely  as  a  work- 
ing principle. 

After  Jim  Scott  had  been  President  for 
three  terms — ending  in  1889 — Billy  Taylor  was 
"exalted,"  and  I  recall  the  dedicatory  "stag" 
that  followed  as  possibly  the  Club's  greatest 
general  jollification,  lasting  easily  till  8  o'clock 
the  next  morning.  Billy  was  the  night  re- 
porter par  excellence,  and  had  been  Harry 
Ballard's  right-bower  in  the  Club. 

Then  Ed.  Pritchard  (now  the  Board  of 
Health  Secretary)  took  hold,  and  for  a  while 


the  picturesque  Col.  Ayme  (who  did  far  more 
heroically  as  Consul  at  wicked  Mount  Pelee, 
and  afterward  at  the  revolution  in  Lisbon). 
Then,  in  the  following  or  concurrent  years, 
five  men  grasped  the  rudder — William  M. 
Knox,  Frank  E.  Johnson,  John  B.  Waldo,  E. 
J.  Baker  and  A.  T.  Packard — and  these  names 
will  be  famous  in  our  inner  history  so  long 
as  it  shall  descend  in  our  records  and  chat- 
lore.  Through  much  of  the  time  of  his  per- 
sonal hard  work  and  self-denial,  William  M. 
Knox  was  President.  I  know  that  Frank  E. 
Johnson,  in  one  year,  gathered  $5,000  cash  at 
the  Auditorium,  and  brought  most  of  it  to 
the  long-trusting  but  never-famishing  Morri- 
son, our  benignant  landlord.  As  to  Waldo 
and  Baker,  whenever  a  Financial  Secretary 
fell  through  the  floor  or  ascended  into  heaven 
through  the  ceiling,  what  man  but  Waldo  or 
Baker  (perhaps  most  often  Baker)  could  be 
expected  to  sacrifice  all  and  take  the  Secre- 
taryship? Whosoever  shall  in  his  mind  really 
salute,  or  thank,  or  wonder  at  the  Press  Club 
— let  him  salute  them !  Through  the  tedious 
years,  great  editors  were  sometimes  teased  into 
a  temporary  patronage  of  rival  and  "only  press 
clubs" ;  but  these  loyal  and  unheralded  work- 
ers that  I  have  named  toiled  on  at  the  Press 
Club  of  Chicago,  kept  the  faith,  and  preserved 
a  Press  Club  for  rivals  and  all.  In  later  years 
Charles  Sergei's  name,  may,  I  think,  be  equit- 
ably added  to  this  faithful  guard. 

The  eighteen  years  on  Clark  street  seemed 
to  behold  the  twilight  of  our  close  alliance 
with  the  actors.  Our  hours  grew  less  bohe- 
mian. Yet  I  think  the  Club  grew  more  liter- 
ary. More  great  and  abiding  hard  workers 
were  with  us — James  J.  West,  Elton  Lower, 
Col.  Jim  Davis,  Douglas  Malloch,  Duncan 
Smith,  W.  Frederick  Nutt,  George  Wood  and 
the  excellent  John  U.  Higinbotham  (Allelu! — 
J-U-H!).  In  Press  Club  land,  as  in  Buddha 
land,  one  must  not  weary  of  well-doing! 

There  now  came  to  the  forefront  a  son  of 
Equality — Homer  J.  Carr,  a  Tribune  lad  and 
man.  Him  the  Club  kept  President  four  terms 
— four  years — an  unexampled  trust,  and  there 
was  somewhat  of  sorrow  in  bohemia  (where 
Sorrow  is  by  no  means  starred)  that  he  could 
not  be  impressed  again.  But,  one  of  the  two 
charter  members  remained — John  J.  Flinn 
(creator  of  the  "uplift",  and  a  hundred  other 
verbal  harpoons) — and  Johnny  Flinn  was 
President  for  two  years. 

During  these  six  ever-memorable  and  lit- 
erary years,  the  noticeable  thing  that  devel- 
oped was  the  national  nature  of  the  Press 


Club.  We  found  our  elder  members  in  every 
city — our  outposts  and  pro-consuls — our  apos- 
tles preaching  everywhere.  The  country  press 
began  to  consider  the  Press  Club  its  own  af- 
fair. Invitations  poured  in  upon  us,  and  our 
EXCURSION  AGE  had  come.  At  various  times 
the  Press  Club  as  a  body  went  to  Washington, 
New  York  City  and  West  Point ;  to  Denver ; 
twice  to  St.  Louis;  to  Rock  Island;  to  the  Illi- 
nois University  (the  guests  of  Professor 
James,  a  member);  to  Fort  Sheridan;  to 
Yorktown ; — to  the  Lord  knows  where  else.. 
An  excursion  of  the  Press  Club  that  the  men 
and  women  spoke  most  pleasantly  of  (where 
all  succeeded)  was  conducted  by  Douglas  Mai- 
loch,  now  our  President,  somewhere  on  the 
other  side  of  Lake  Michigan. 

In  Billy  Freeman's  year  (1901)  James  J. 
West  and  Henry  Barrett  Chamberlin  (after- 
ward President)  through  their  loyal  efforts, 
made  an  end  of  all  but  $600  of  $6,000  of  debt. 
The  membership  by  this  time  included  102 
writers  on  local  daily  papers;  101  others  who 
were  authors  of  books,  and  over  100  editors 
of  great  trade  papers.  Non-resident  members 
kept  in  touch  with  the  Club  from  all  over  the 
world. 

There  have  been  debt-payers  or  savers  even 
among  the  Presidents  of  bohemia — Franc 
Wilkie,  W.  K.  Sullivan,  Sam  Medill,  Curtis, 
Bradwell,  Ballantyne,  Dunlop,  Packard,  Free- 
man and  Little.  How  many  other  clubs  can 
count  so  many? 

The  unparalleled  thing  that  happened  over 
Mussey's  was  the  Kirmess.  It  lasted  three 
days  (in  February,  1903).  The  ladies  decoyed 
$2,700  out  of  the  pockets  of  the  members.  The 
Kirmess  broke  everybody  and  for  the  time 
ruined  the  cafe.  But  the  Kirmess  was  truly 
great.  We  were  all  astonished  by  the  loyalty 
and  sisterhood  of  the  women.  I  recall  George 
Wiggs,  Edgar  Blum,  Doc  Jamieson,  Jefferson 
Jackson,  Charlie  Hewitt,  John  Brown,  Dr. 
Fisher,  Dr.  Williams,  and  Fred  Pelham  among 
the  heroes. 

The  cafe  when  the  Club  was  over  Mussey's 
was  a  large  one.  It  would  seat  250  at  table. 
The  dinners  and  banquets  of  the  ten  years 
were  legion — mostly  of  a  literary  flavor — and 
not  one  of  them  failed.  Homer  Carr  always 
vowed  that  the  beginning  and  the  ending  of  it 
all  lay  in  the  complimentary  banquet  given  in 
the  name  of  the  Old  Guard  to  Opie  Read. 
John  Ritchie  was  toast-master  that  night, 
started  early,  and  got  through  promptly  at  3 
in  the  morning— or  4!  By  the  way,  he  made 
one  of  the  most  eloquent  speeches  anybody 
ever  heard. 


But  the  mood  might  be  otherwise  as  to  time- 
limits.  In  one  of  the  finest  entertainments 
ever  offered  at  the  Club,  eighteen  authors  and 
poets  presented  their  own  work  in  one  hour 
and  eighteen  minutes,  Luther  Laflin  Mills 
presiding. 

At  the  banquet  to  President  Carr,  afterward, 
when  he  resigned  as  prince  of  bohemia,  200 
Press  Club  boeks,  with  authors'  tributes  to 
Homer,  were  presented  in  patent  book  cases. 

In  Judge  Bradwell's  later  years  he  was  as 
reverend  in  appearance  as  King  Lear.  It  was 
the  Club's  noble  custom  to  seat  the  oldest  ex- 
President  always  at  the  right  of  the  President, 
and  he  often  attended  the  meetings.  He  did 
not  cut  his  white  hair  or  beard  after  the  great 
Myra  Bradwell  died. 

The  high -jinks  when  the  boys  came  home 
from  the  Orient — especially  the  comings  of 
Dick  Little  and  the  Chee-Foo  Soothsayer — are 
talked  about  yet.  Even  Professor  Cho-Yo 
laughed. 

This  should  be  said  of  the  great  circle  (or 
moving  epicycle)  of  the  Press  Club:  In  that 
circle  sat  welcome  the  author,  the  poet,  the 
humorist,  wit,  satirist,  philosopher,  iconoclast; 
the  Republican,  Democrat,  Prohibitionist,  So- 
cialist; Reactionary,  Progressive;  the  Catholic, 
Lutheran,  Calvinist,  Wesleyan,  Quaker,  Chris- 
tian Scientist,  Agnostic,  yes,  even  the  Dowie- 
ite.  Each  took  what  was  coming  to  him  in 
pure  reason ;  and  each  gave  back,  without 
ethical  handicap,  in  turn  to  them.  It  was 
Mallock's  "Is  Life  Worth  Living?"  enacted  in 
real  life.  It  was  pure  intellectual  freedom! 

VI. 

At  the  funeral  of  John  F.  Ballantyne  (Pres- 
ident in  1886),  in  a  church  of  the  North  Side, 
in  1892,  I  saw  the  greatest  number  of  daily 
newspaper  writers  together  that  I  have  ever 
beheld  on  a  private  (or  perhaps  a  public)  occa- 
sion. A  large  church  was  crowded. 

The  funerals  of  Eugene  Field  and  James  W. 
Scott,  at  St.  James,  were  highly-distinguished 
events. 

Emery  Storrs  was  the  Press  Club's  first 
acclaimed  own  orator;  his  mantle  fell  on 
Luther  Laflin  Mills;  his  mantle  falls  on  Col- 
onel James  Hamilton  Lewis.  I  really  expect 
great  things  anon  of  Frank  Comerford.  The 
delightful  Tom  Fitch  of  California  was  with 
us  for  over  a  year. 

Our  great  story-tellers  were  Paul  Hull,  Opie 
Read,  Clay  Clement,  "Mons"  Flanders,  Frank 
Lincoln,  Willie  Eaton,  Canfield,  Amsbury,  Col. 
Visscher,  Col.  Kellogg,  Frank  Welch  (on  the 
''Chink"),  and  J.  E.  G.  Ryan.  We  were  con- 


tented  when  Ben  King,  Paul  Sweeney,  Harold 
Vynne,  Hiestand,  Louis  Block  or  Charles  Lur- 
vey  was  at  the  piano.  But  Kahn — young 
Kahn,  old  Kahn — has  gone  the  whole  32  years. 
We  feel  a  genuine  pride  in  our  present  fine 
singers  Alfred  Hiles  Bergen  and  Kirk  Towns. 
Perhaps  we  are  luckiest"  in  Billy  Way.  What 
can  I  say  (that  would  be  heard)  of  Jupiter 
Tonans  Christensen?  The  big  piano  that 
Walton  Perkins  gave  us  trembles  when  the 
Czar  of  Rag-time  turns  into  Dearborn  street 
— it  erupts  when  he  sits  at  the  beyboard.  Think 
of  the  Autocrat's  ten  fingers — ten  several 
punches  each  like  the  4th-of-July  right  duke 
of  Lil'  Artha! 

Charlie  Perkins,  Hugh  Blake  Williams,  and 
Wilbur  D.  Nesbit  were  our  champions  in  ray- 
pairtay. 

Burlingame  was  and  is  our  official  necro- 
mancer. When  the  Mephistophelian  Hermann 
cast  down  his  rod  in  our  Club,  and  it  turned 
into  a  snake,  we  always  relied  on  Burlingame's 
rod  to  turn  into  a  bigger  serpent  and  swallow 
up  Hermann's.  When  we  were  old  men,  we 
knew  he  helped  along  the  show. 

Bramhall  and  Joe  Henderson  ran  the  library. 
Bramhall  is  at  San  Francisco.  Joe  Henderson 
was  never  away,  save  when  he  founded  the 
Ladies'  Home  Companion.  When  Walter 
Wright  came  up  from  New  Orleans,  Jo  could 
always  get  a  $100  bookcase  for  the  mere  men- 
tioning. The  Powell  half-tones  and  Smith- 
sonian General  Reports  are  on  our  shelves. 
Ed.  Pickard  has  a  very  long  record  of  use- 
fulness as  Secretary. 

From  the  time  Manton  Marble  sold  to 
Pulitzer,  John  Fay  has  been  the  Western  end 
of  the  New  York  World.  No  one  could  either 
wean  him  from  the  Press  Club,  or  induce  him 
to  be  President.  It  was  instructive  to  hear 
John  Fay,  John  Finerty  and  Edward  Maher 
(experts  and  collectors)  discuss  Napoleon. 

Our  earliest  printer  was  Charlie  Blakely. 
Then  H.  O.  Shepard  brought  in  the  Inland 
Printer  (McQuilkin  was  its  spirit)  ;  then  W. 
F.  Hall,  James  Regan,  W.  B.  Conkey.  Conkey 
was  a  lad  with  a  bindery  of  his  own  in  Blake- 
ly's  office  when  Blakely  joined  the  Club. 
"Blakely's"  is  now  Oswald's.  John  Oswald 
"made  up"  my  first  book  in  1879.  We  were 
all  cheered  when  cold,  slow  but  not-forgetful 
Ben  Harrison  made  our  dear  Captain  Mere- 
dith Superintendent  of  Engraving.  Again,  it 
has  been  a  pleasant  thing  to  see  the  delight 
with  which  the  Captain  has  viewed  the  liter- 
ary success  of  his  nephew  and  namesake, 
Meredith  Nicholson. 

We  have  sat  with  Captain,  Major,  Colonel, 


General  Andy  Burt — God  bless  him !  Col.  Kel- 
logg and  Col.  Reed  have  been  our  other  two 
of  the  Old  Guard  in  the  Regular  Army.  Coi. 
Jim  Davis,  ex-Confederate,  and  John  Ritchie, 
Union  Volunteer,  formed  a  true  and  pic- 
turesque friendship  in  their  veteran  years. 

Before  the  Press  Club  became  more  than 
local  in  its  scope  and  feelings,  New  York  City 
was  a  sore  enemy.  It  drafted  our  great  and 
loved  ones  in  scores.  The  more  clubable  he 
might  be  the  sooner  New  York  called  for  a 
favorite  member — Henry  Guy  Carleton,  Dune- 
ka,  Angus  Sinclair,  Jim  Holland,  Van  Benthuy- 
sen,  Horatio  Seymour,  Tod  Cowles,  Tomo 
Thompson,  Frank  Burrelle,  Melville  Stone, 
George  Martin,  Billy  Taylor,  John  Gregg,  John 
N.  Reynolds,  Capt.  Darby,  Bill  Nye,  Bob  Ran- 
som, Dave  Sasseen,  John  Stapleton,  Will  Nich- 
olas, Denslow,  Fred  Cook,  Frank  Pixley,  In- 
graham,  Wilbur  Wakeman,  Harry  B.  Smith — 
oh,  la,  la,  it  was  sad,  in  those  days ! 

The  Club  has  literally  cultivated  brotherly 
love.  I  can  recall  the  three  brothers  Friedman 
and  McCutcheon.  The  brothers  Medill  were 
both  Presidents.  The  Club  would  have  been 
lamentably  different  without  the  Kochersper- 
gers,  Ed.  and  Charles  Pickard,  John  J.  and 
H.  J.  Bohn,  Lyman  and  E.  L.  Cooley,  John  M. 
and  Frank  Crane,  Louis  and  Edgar  Blum  (my 
own  true  friends),  Trumbull  and  Harry  White, 
George  and  Fred  Dunham,  Chas.  Dowst  and 
his  brother,  and  John  and  Felix  Willy. 

The  Club  owes  very,  very  much  to  others 
of  its  habitants,  not  so  far  named  (and  not 
practicably  nameable  in  all),  who  have  been 
often  at  the  Club,  at  varying  hours,  according 
to  the  nature  of  their  calling,  whether  by  night 
or  day  (or  both,  they  often  put  it).  Some  of 
these  members  were  always  on  hand  to  receive 
the  returning  ones.  There  is  no  key  of  the 
Press  Club.  Monty  Gibbs  or  Newton  McMil- 
lan might  call  in  from  Australia,  Curtis  from 
Tashkend,  Jim  Haynie  or  W.  S.  Walker,  or 
Frederick  Mayer  from  Paris,  Von  Schierbrand 
from  Teheran  or  Berlin,  George  Miln  or 
Joseph  Hatton  from  London,  Boiling  Johnson, 
Arthur  Evans  or  McNair  from  everywhere — 
it  was  not  like  other  clubs — it  was  always  in 
session.  If  you  looked  into  the  windows  of 
other  clubs  in  other  days,  after  meal-time, 
what  place  could  be  more  vacant?  But,  at 
the  Press  Club,  morning  or  evening,  noon  or 
midnight,  or  third-cock-crow,  what  wanderer 
among  all  our  surviving  scatterlings  cannot  re- 
call the  glad  handgrasp  of  Jack  Fuller,  or  Ike 
Fleming,  Elliott  Flower,  George  Babbitt,  Hen- 
ry Heinemann,  Benzinger,  Benham,  Matthias. 
Granville,  Hitchcock,  I.  J.  Bryan,  George 


Jameson,  Ray  Patterson,  Igleheart,  Giveen, 
Warren  Bailey,  Clarence  Hough,  Lockwood, 
Jacobsen,  Fred  Rae,  Hughey  Keogh,  Papa  and 
Eddie  Kim,  Dick  Murphy,  Doc  Manning, 
Owen,  Newell,  Nate  Reed,  Earl  Shearer  (de- 
scendent  of  Patrick  Henry),  Marcus  Lane, 
Dick  Murphy,  A.  F.  Shuman,  Harry  Snyder, 
Billy  Strong,  Whitford,  big  Frank  Wyatt;  or 
of  Tommy  O'Neill  (he  has  greeted  the  most), 
Franc  Hernon,  Hi  Fargo,  Harry  Bunting  (re- 
cruited about  as  many  members  as  Douglas 
Malloch),  Alex.  Johnson,  Charlie  Gould,  A. 
Milo  Bennett,  Pendleton,  Frank  Roderus,  A. 
W.  Glessner  (his  son,  like  Forrest  Crissey's 
son,  grew  up  to  join),  Will  Ray,  Mr.  Prindle, 
Harry  Yount,  George  Sikes,  George  Wey- 
mouth,  Will  Payne,  George  Cram  Cook,  Gow- 
an-Stobo,  Prof.  Krebs,  Devereaux,  Otto  Hot- 
tinger,  John  F.  Smulski,  Charles  Walter 
Brown  and  Henry  W.  Lee  (their  three  wives — 
three  beautiful  singers),  Kennett  Harris,  W. 
R.  Blake,  Harry  McMeal,  Jim  Tom  Elliott, 
E.  W.  Miller,  Allen  F.  Mclntyre,  Peter  Olsen, 
Samuel  Sternfeld,  Maxwell  Edgar,  Andy 
Mowatt,  Walter  Crosman,  Rev.  W.  H.  Car- 
wardine,  Mr.  Ulrich  (his  daughter,  Madame 
Noldi  in  grand  opera),  Judge  Geeting,  Bar- 
ratt  O'Hara,  Dangel,  Frederick  Ward  (the 
artist),  W.  A.  Gray  ("Forbes  &  Co."),  Charlie 
Frizelle,  Hansen,  Dwight  Patterson,  Edgar 
Lee  Masters,  Eben  Norris,  Othmer,  Philip 
Ray,  Frank  Rigler,  Ethelbert  Stewart,  Byron 
Veatch,  Frank  Wetherbee,  Arthur  Wolfe, 
Chas.  Zollars,  Chas.  Ffrench,  Elliott  Durand, 
Senator  Noonan,  Braslawsky,  Strickland  Gil- 
lilan,  F.  D.  Abbott,  C.  W.  Carr,  Josiah  Cratty, 
Dr.  G.  Frank  Lydston  (learned  and  free), 
James  Boyd,  Karl  Harriman,  Harry  L.  Bird, 
Eddie  Davieson,  George  Washington  Weip- 
pert,  Conant,  Van  Gilder,  George  Sutherland, 
T.  R.  Weddell,  Professors  Willis  Moore,  Cox, 
and  Hershey  (Federal  clerks  of  the  weather), 
Florence  Sullivan  (crack  reporter  of  the  old 
days,  like  John  Ehlert),  Ollie  Moody,  J.  B. 
Mansfield,  E.  A.  Taft,  J.  R.  Purchase,  Prof. 
Roberts,  R.  A.  Halley,  Harry  Bogg,  Clark, 
Hische,  Fantus,  Mark  Hayne,  Millar  (the  stu- 
dious one),  Edward  Everett  Young,  Phil  Hol- 
land (I'll  warrant  I've  missed  some  of  the 
most  hospitable  ones  from  ancient  days)  — 
surely,  through  all  the  years  and  all  the  hours, 
the  home-comer  would  find  some  seneschal  of 
welcome  standing  the  eternal  watch. 

VII. 

TO-DAY. 

Though  all  of  these  doings  in  the  foregoing 
fragments     are    past    and   gone,   the   Greater 


Press  Club  of  To-day  reckons  hundreds  of 
the  ancient  members  on  hand  to  witness  and 
to  testify  to  the  triumph  of  our  onward  march. 
The  roster  to-day  is  twice  as  full  of  brilliant 
names,  the  rooms  are  twice  as  crowded  with 
good  fellows — I  can  prophecy  we  shall  soon 
hive  all  over  the  building. 

In  the  far  more  considerable  official  coun- 
cils of  to-day  are  Messrs.  Douglas  Malloch, 
President,  E.  J.  Baker,  B.  Beecher  Osborne, 
Harry  S.  Hyman,  Eddie  Fox,  Theodore  Van 
R.  Ashcroft,  Otto  Kney,  Emmett  Moore,  Hor- 
ace Ford,  W.  R.  Barnes,  Julius  R.  Kline,  Chas. 
N.  Wheeler,  and  able  companions  like  Lederer 
and  Henderson,  who  have  been  already  named 
in  this  memoir — (you  see  Baker  is  still  there, 
as  a  solid  guarantee  to  the  Grandfather's 
Guard).  Nothing  is  missing  in  the  old  char- 
ter of  Fraternity,  Equality,  Humanity.  The 
old  Spirit  of  the  Club  is  more  virile,  more  ad- 
mirable than  ever  before.  Take  the  reception 
to  the  Milwaukee  Press  Club,  the  Burns  anni- 
versary, or  the  meeting  on  Saint  Patrick's 
night  (all  in  1912) — what  really  efficient  judge 
of  bohemia  could  aver  that  it  was  not  going 
in  the  proper  great  way  at  the  Press  Club? 
And  mix  into  the  stir  that  I  have  already  frag- 
mentarily  named  (where  I  see  such  good  fel- 
lows as  Harry  White  grow  ten  years  younger) 
— mix  this  following  additional  spicing  of 
goodfellows  and  their  chums — billiard-play- 
ers, rhum-players,  pool-players,  minstrels, 
students,  writing-room  denizens,  diners,  what- 
not?— hear  their  shouts,  greetings,  repartee 
— will  you  not  have  at  last  a  satisfactory 
Club?  Not  these  men  alone,  not  these  ad- 
ditional, but  these  symbolical  of  a  vision 
of  increasing,  continuous  hospitality  and  home 
—  (and  all  symbolical  of  the  other  scores 
of  goodfellows  present  some  other  day)  : 
W.  H.  Walker,  Victor  Eubanks,  George  Odell, 
Dr.  Wayland,  Billy  Baxter,  C.  A.  Briggs,  Bob 
Campbell,  Karl  MacVitty,  Kirk  Towns,  John 
I.  Day,  William  Jossey,  Albert  Cone,  Bedford 
Jones,  Stanly  Twist,  Ben  Simpson,  L.  R.  Mer- 
rill, Rutledge  Rutherford,  Morton  Hiscox, 
Prof.  Radonovitz,  J.  N.  Buchanan,  Fred  Hay- 
ner,  W.  H.  Head,  G.  C.  Griffiths,  W.  T.  Chris- 
tine, J.  Ellsworth  Gross  (with  his  celebrated 
camera),  Bruce  Calvert,  Henry  J.  Hadfield,  H. 
Guy  Woodward,  Ransom  E.  Walker,  George 
Allen  Yuille,  Oswald  F.  Schuette,  B.  J. 
Beardsley,  George  J.  Kimball,  Frederick  J. 
Squibb,  John  E.  Bacon,  H.  P.  Cohn,  B.  F. 
Zimmer,  E.  T.  Bent,  Max  Rabinoff,  N.  L.  Pat- 
terson, B.  A.  Pratt,  Luigi  del  Oro,  Banks  Win- 
ter ("White  Wings"),  George  L.  Louis,  Ed- 
ward C.  Moore,  Harry  Daniel,  Maurice  Rosen- 


feld,  C.  J.  Kirch,  John  M.  Stahl,  Horace 
Delano,  L.  T.  Goble,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson, 
E.  H.  Plummer,  Dan  Morgan  Smith,  Chas.  W. 
Collins,  R.  J.  Peacock,  E.  R.  Shaw,  F.  F.  Ains- 
worth,  O.  M.  Becker,  C.  W.  Barrett,  Ben  S. 
Boyce,  D.  F.  Cass,  E.  A.  Hall,  Jr.,  Dan  M. 
Pierce,  Gilbert  Shorter,  R.  A.  Ward,  O.  C. 
Finney,  E.  F.  Kemp,  Ed.  Kolakowski,  Fred 
A.  Record,  J.  J.  Zmrhal,  John  Weber, 
Eugene  Skinkle,  John  Edward  Buck,  Mason 
Warner — some  at  leisure  and  "clubby" 
this  week,  this  month ;  then  the  same  men 
busy  for  weeks,  months,  or  hermits  for  years — 
some  going,  coming — in  and  out  of  the  Club 
and  in  Chicago,  like  Little  Dick  and  Francis 
J.  Schulte,  and  Frank  Woods ;  or  in  and  out 
of  the  Club  and  on  the  other  side  of  the  world, 
like  R.  W.  Emerson,  R.  R.  Jones,  Trumbull 
White,  Dick  Little,  Kennett  Harris — so  many 
— or  like  John  Gregg,  playing  Kongo  in  the 
Club  to-day,  at  noon  hour,  in  New  York  to- 
morrow— a  desk  in  each  city,  week  after  week 
the  year  around — so  goes  Bohemio-Cosmopolis 
in  the  century  of  Wilbur  and  Orville  Wright, 
in  the  day  of  the  moving  picture  and  the 
Victor  Victrola.  But  let  us  always  steady  this 


picture  of  a  swarming,  whirling,  coming  and 
going  universe  of  vigilant  intellect,  with  an- 
other, a  collateral  permanent  body  of  life- 
membership,  attracting  such  names  (not  pre- 
viously mentioned)  and  by  the  hundreds,  as 
the  well-honored  ones  of  Frederick  Warde 
(tragedian  and  scholar),  Victor  Herbert,  Fred- 
erick Stock,  John  R.  McLean,  Chas.  A.  Taylor. 
Jack  Crawford,  Elmer  C.  Hole,  John  E.  Wil- 
liams, Samuel  Alschuler,  Bion  J.  Arnold,  A. 
C.  Berghoff,  E.  O.  Brown,  Father  Dorney, 
Chas.  A.  Comiskey,  E.  S.  Conway,  Seth  Crews, 
Chas.  G.  Dawes,  Chauncey  Dewey,  T.  N.  Don- 
nelly, Max  Eberhardt,  ex-Vice  President 
Chas.  W.  Fairbanks,  Fritz  von  Frantzius,  C. 
F.  Gunther,  Max  Henius,  Rabbi  Hirsch,  ex- 
Senator  Albert  J.  Hopkins,  Frank  E.  Hoyne, 
Chas.  L.  Hutchinson,  Levy  Mayer,  Chas.  W. 
Murphy,  C.  W.  Post,  Martin  A.  Ryerson,  Na- 
thaniel C.  Sears,  John  Z.  Vogelsang,  Chas.  H. 
Wacker,  Edward  C.  Waller,  Arthur  S.  Wheel- 
er, Judge  Windes,  Judge  Sabath — and  there 
you  have  some  fragmentary  portion  of  the 
dramatic  film,  the  moving  picture,  that  flashes 
across  our  memory,  our  vision,  and  our  loyal 
and  enthusiastic  expectations,  when  we  sum- 
mon a  concept  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago. 


PRESS  CLUB  SCOOP 

PRESENTED  BY    THE 

PRESS  CLUB  OF  CHICAGO 
SATURDAY  NIGHT,  MAY  25,  J912 


PROGRAM 

(Subject  to  Change) 


Opening  Overture,  "The  Press  Club  Scoop" 

Orchestra 

Written  and  conducted  by 
EDWARD  C.  MOORE. 


Prologue, 
OPIE  READ. 


Grand  First  Part. 
"A  Night  at  the   Press   Club." 

A  Bohemian  Revel  showing  famous  mem- 
bers of  .the  Press  Club  in  their  usual  haunts 
doing  favorite  stunts. 

Arranged  by  Douglas  Malloch. 

Produced  under  personal  direction  of  Otis 
B.  Thayer. 

(Courtesy   Selig   Polyscope   Company.) 

Stage  direction  of   Stanly  H.  Twist. 


THOSE  APPEARING. 

As  Themselves. 

Affeld,    C.    E.,   Jr.          Emerson,  W.  D. 
Ashcroft,  Theo.  Van  R.  Ffrench,  Charles 


Bowes,  W.  R. 
Baxter,   W.   M. 
Buck,   J.   E. 
Bullion,    Wm.    R. 
Campbell,  John  A. 
Carrell,   Clarence 
Cass,  DeLysle  F. 
Clark,  Wm.  E. 
Cole,  F.  C. 
Cox,   Geo.   L. 
Dahlstrom,   Roy 
Davis,  J.   G. 
Davieson,  Edw. 
Dean,  Woodford  D. 
Delano,  Horace  H. 
Demphy,   Wm.   C. 
Devitt,   Geo.    P. 
Dickson,  Maj.  M.  E. 
Eberhart,  Noble  M. 


Ford,  Horace  M. 
Fox,  Edw.  H. 
Fox,  Chester 
Gairing,  John 
Goble,  Leroy  T. 
Gross,  J.  Ellsworth 
Halley,  R.  A. 
Hayboard,    Arthur 
Hayne,  Mark 
Helm,  E.  W. 
Henderson,   J.   F. 
Hartless,  Robert 
Herbert,  Chauncey 
Hess,   Einar 
Higinbotham,  John  U. 
Hobert,  S.  G. 
Jones,   H.    Bedford 
Kissack,    William 
Kney,  Otto 


Krausz,   Sigmund 
Lampman,  Clinton  P. 
La   Pierre,  James  J. 
Lederer,    Charles 
Louis,   George  L. 
McComb,  James   J. 
McCullough,   Walter 
Malloch,  Douglas 
Mears,    William    C. 
Melville,    Willis 
Moody,  O.   E. 
Moulding,    Dick   R. 
Norris,    Eben    H. 
Ormes,   A.   E. 
Osborne,  B.  Beecher 
Papot,  Benedict 
Pickard,  E.  W. 
Purchase,  J.  R. 
Read,  Opie 
Ritchey,   S.   E. 
Ritchey,  Ed. 
Roberts,   Victor 


Rosselli,  Rex 
Sawyer,  Phil 
Schneberger,  Rich.  H. 
Shnable,  E.  R. 
Shorter,  Gilbert 
Stewart,   E.  L. 
Taft,  E.  A. 
Thomsen,  Wm. 
Ulrich,   Barton   A. 
Vane,  Denton 
Walker,  W.  H. 
Ward,  R.  A. 
Warner,  Mason 
Watson,  Frank  T. 
Way,   Billy 
Weber,  John   L. 
Wetherbee,    F.   J. 
Wheeler,  Charles  X. 
White,  Harry  Sheldon 
Woodward,  Franc  R.  E. 
Yore,    Clement 
Young,  H.  W. 


As  Others. 

First  Waiter Stanly   H.  Twist 

Second    Waiter.  .William    Lightfoot    Visscher 
Third   Waiter..  ..C.   C.    Pickett 


VISITORS. 

Orpheus  Glee  Club. 

C.   M.   Wirick,   Director. 


Warren  B.  Ewer 
Victor  E.  Tonneson 
Roy  A.  Novak 
Myron  G.  Dibelka 
Harold  L.   Goldstine 
Ernest  E.  Nelson 
Geo.   J.   MacGregor 
Irwin   S.  Olson 
Sam    Bleiweiss 
Carl    O.    Lejonstein 
Arthur   C.   Mitchell 
R.   H.    Schneberger 


C.  W.  Gleworth 
Victor  H.  Halperin 
George   W.    Loach 
John   R.   Marchant 
Ernest  A.    Ford 
Walter   Gabel 
Lemuel  H.   Allen 
Dwight   H.   Heath 
Ralph   P.  Brown 
Arthur  Hayford 
Harlan   H.   Edwards 
H.  Stacey  Macomber 


PROGRAM  — Continued 


Joseph  P.  Thomson 
Lyman    A.    Stinson 
Allen    H.   Thomson 
W.  B.  Kurd 
N.    Lawrence    Snorf 
B.  B.  Silbermajin 
William  L.   Noblett 
H.  E.  McMullen 
Alfred  R.  Pastel 
W.  A.  Harris 
Frank  M.  Dry 
Rich'd  H.  Fairclough 
L.   R.   Pierson 
A.   P.   Selby 
G.  L.  Lyon 


1.  E.  Roberts 
H.   Snorf 
F.  J.   Hrubes 
Duane    C.    Colmey 
Pierre  Blouke 
P.  K.  Van  Winkle- 
Carl  Stroker 
D.  C.  Ozmun 
A.  G.  Bryant 
R.  J.  Hovey 
James   Viles. 
John  W.  Scott. 
Frank  Houseman. 
C.  W.  Jordan. 
S.   W.   Allerton. 


NUMBERS. 

I. 
Grand  Opening  Chorus — "Press  Club  Boys" 

Entire    Company 

(Words  and  music  by  George  L.  Louis.) 

II. 

R.  W.  STERRETT,  Tenor. 

"The   Orinoco"    (words   and   music    by    Billy 

Way). 

III. 
AXEL  CHRISTENSEN, 

"Czar  of  Ragtime.'' 
"When   Ragtime    Rosie   Ragged   the   Rosary." 


IV.     « 
NEWSBOYS'  QUARTETTE. 

Myron   Dibelka,   First  Tenor. 
George  J.  MacGregor,  Second  Tenor. 
George  W.  Loach,  First  Bass. 
Harlan  H.  Edwards,   Second  Bass. 

V. 

BILLY  WAY, 

That  Inimitable  Pianologist,  singing  his  fa- 
mous Press  Club  Hymn,  "He  Never  Blamed 
the  Booze." 

VI. 

"THE    DANCING    EIGHT." 

From  "A  Modern  Eve,"  Garrick  Theater. 

The   Season's   Greatest   Dancing   Act. 

(Courtesy  Mort  H.  Singer.) 

VII. 

WAITERS'  QUARTET 
In  Song  and  Dance. 

VIII. 
Closing  Ensemble. 

"The  Press  Club  Man" 

By  Harold  W.  Dingman 

SYLVAIN  LANGLOIS, 

Baritone. 
Supported    by    Entire    Company. 


PART  TWO 


All-Star   Olio 

(Subject  to  Change) 

DIRECTION  OF  GEORGE  S.  WOOD 


Owing  to  the  length  of  the  program  the 
for  encores. 

I. 
FLO  JACOBSON  AND  BILLY  FOGARTY. 

In   an   original    singing  sketch, 
"1  wish  I  was  in  Dixie" (Snyder) 

II. 

Chicago's  Own 

"JIMMIE"   CALLAHAN, 

Manager  of  the  "White   Sox." 

III. 

WALTER  McCULLOUGH, 
"Casey  at  the  Bat." 

IV. 

RAYMOTH, 
"The  American  Nightingale." 


audience  is  requested  to  refrain  from  calling 

V. 

CHICAGO    CARTOONISTS. 
A  battalion  of  Chicago's  cleverest. 

"Surprise  Comics" Charles  Lederer 

"The  Cascade" Mark  Hayne 

"Favorite  Characters" C.  A.  Briggs 

"Local   Room  People" Robert  A.  Ward 

"Bits  of  Color" Frank  I.  Wetherbee 

"Cartoonists" L.  R.  Merrill 

"Doc   Yak" Sidney   Smith 

"Public   Characters" Dennis   Donohue 

Incidental   music  by   Victor   Herbert,   mem- 
ber of  the  Press  Club. 


PROGRAM  —  Continued 

VI.  VIII. 

wl7t)A       DTTDT   1MT7T?  W.M.BAXTER. 

VERA   BERLINER, 

Ihe    Press    Clubs   Own 

The  Violinist  with  a  Soul.  Saxophone    Soloist. 

IX. 
VII.  FRANK  FOGARTY, 

„,  .         ,    -r:         ..  The  Dublin  Minstrel. 

Chicago  s  Favorite, 

MAUD   LILLIAN   BERR1,  ARTHUR^DEMING. 

Dramatic  Soprano.  "That    Famous    Minstrel    Man." 


PART  THREE 


GRAND    AFTERPIECE 

The  Great  Political  Travesty 

'An   Advance   Edition   of  the   Republican    National   Convention" 

Presenting    in    One   Screaming   Act  a  few  of  the   many  screaming 
acts  of  the  political  leaders  of  our  time. 

(Copyright,  1912,  by  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago) 

WRITTEN  BY  DOUGLAS  MALLOCH 
Produced  under  the  personal  supervision  of  Otis  B.  Thayer.  Stage  in  charge  of  Stanly  H    Twist. 

Time— June.  1912 

Place— The  Coliseum.  Chicago 


CAST  OF  PRINCIPAL  CHARACTERS: 

Theodore   Roosevelt Otis   B.  Thayer  William  Randolph  Hearst E.  W.  Helm 

William  Howard  Taft.  .  .William  D.  Emerson  Chairman   of    Suffragette   Delegation 

Robert  M.  LaFollette Gilbert  Shorter  ; Billy    Wax- 
Joseph   G.   Cannon Douglas   Malloch  The  Suffragette  Delegation. Frank  I.  Wetherbee 

Chairman    Wisconsin   Delegation Leader  Convention  Bands.  ..  .Edward  H.  Fox 

Charles   N.  Wheeler  Page  of  the  Convention.  .Walter  McCullough 

Chairman    Ohio    Delegation Reporter Leroy  T.   Goble 

Noble  M.  Eberhart  Newsboy Denton  Vane 

Chairman  Illinois  Delegation ..  George  L.  Cox  Bibulous  New  York  Delegate 

Temporary    Chairman    of    Convention Chauncey    Herbert 

B.    Beecher    Osborne  Ardent  Supporter  of  LaFollette 

Secretary  of   Convention J.   J.   Zmrhal  William  R.  Bullion 

Champ  Clark John  L.  Weber  Illinois  Delegate Rex  De  Rosselli 

His   Original   "Houn"    Dawg" Another  Illinois  Delegate John  Campbell 

William    H.    Walker  Chairman    Georgia    Delegation 

Woodrow  Wilson G.  Charles  Griffiths  William    Lightf oot    Visscher 

Various    state    delegations,    state    chairman,  newspaper       correspondents,       photographers, 

telegraph    operators,    messengers,    spectators,  etc. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

The  Press  Club  of  Chicago  wishes  to  acknowledge  its  appreciation 
and  tender  its  sincere  thanks  to  the  following  for  courtesies  and  help 
extended  in  making  the  "Press  Club  Scoop"  a  success: 


LIST  OF  PATRONS. 


W.  R.  Abbott. 
S.  W.  Allerton. 
W.  J.  Anderson. 

E.  W.  Bailey. 
Edgar   A.   Bancroft 
Fred  Bode. 

Glen  Buck- 
A.  W.  Bulkley. 
Alonzo   Burt. 
H.  M.  Byllesby. 

F.  A.  Delano. 

A.  B.  Dick. 
William  Dillon. 
R.  H.  Donnelly, 
James  Downey. 
W.  P.  Dunn. 
Albert  M.  Eastman. 

B.  A.  Eckhart. 
William  S.  Forrest. 


John   Fortune. 

T.  C.  Gleason. 

E.  T.  Glennon. 

Al.  F.  Gorman. 

Charles  F.  Gunther. 

John  C.  Hately. 

Frank  Hauseman. 

William  Henneberry. 

William  P.  Hodge. 

Peter  M.  Hoffman. 

H.  T.   Hollingshead. 

A.  C.  Honore. 

John  P.  Hopkins. 
^WiSrace  E.  Horton 

Robert  W.  Hunt. 

H.  Hurd. 

Ed.  M.  Hyzer. 

Jens  Jensen. 

W.  O.  Johnstone. 
James  McNally. 


C.    W.    Jordan. 

J.  L.  Kesner. 

R.  P.  Lamont. 

G.  F.  Lewis. 

C.   C.   Linthecum. 

Ayer  and  Lord. 

George  E.  Lytton. 

Levy  Mayer. 

Cyrus  H.  McCormick. 

Dr.  John  A.  McGill. 

E.  W.  McKenna. 

Ira,  J.  Mix. 

.  U.  Mudge. 
Phil.  A.  Otis. 
Ralph  E.  Otis. 
Hugo  Pam. 
A.   S.   Peabody. 
Albert  Pick. 
Charles  Piez. 
Clark  L.  Poole. 


Mrs.  Geo.  M.  Pullman. 
Charles  Pope. 
H.  E.  Poronto. 
Isham  Randolph. 
G.  A.  Ranney. 
William  A.  Rehm. 
O.  A.  Reum. 
Andrew  Russell. 
C.  P.  Saule. 
Frank  H.  Scott. 
John  W.  Scott. 
V.  D.   Skipworth. 
Allen  R.  Smart. 
Merritt  Starr. 
James  Vilis. 
George  Weston. 
Carlton  White. 
F.  H.  Wickett. 
J.  H.  Wilkerson. 


The  Selig  Polyscope  Company  and  Col.  W. 
N.  Selig,  its  president,  for  the  services  of 
Mr.  Otis  B.  Thayer,  Stanly  H.  Twist  and 
others. 

The  Street  Railways  Advertising  Company. 

National   Railways  Advertising  Company. 

American  Posting  Service. 

The  Mahin   Advertising   Company. 

The   Snitzler  Advertising  Company. 

Mr.  Mort  H.  Singer,  manager  of  "A  Mod- 
ern Eve"  company. 

Brunswick-Balke-Collender  Company  for 
billiard  tables. 


Ted  Snyder  Music  Pub.  Co. 

Cable  Company,  for  Mason  and  Hamlin 
grand  piano. 

Mr.  James  A.  Brady,  manager  Colonial 
theater. 

Mr.  Rudolph  Berliner,  musical  director  Co- 
lonial theater. 

Schoenhofen  Brewing  Company  for  bar 
fixtures  used  in  the  club  scene. 

Marshall  Field  and  company  for  decora- 
tions used  in  the  convention  scene. 

Alexander  H.  Revell  and  company  for 
furniture  used  in  the  club  scene. 


EXECUTIVE  STAFF. 

"Press  Clqb  Scoop." 


General  Manager — William  J.  Way. 
General  Producer — Otis  B.  Thayer. 
Stage  Director— Stanly  H.  Twist. 
Business  Manager — Karl  G.  MacVitty. 
Treasurer — B.    Beecher   Osborne. 
)irector  of   Publicity — Mason  Warner. 

Assistant  Director  of  Publicity— Horace  H.' 
Delano. 

Musical  Director — Edward  C.  Moore. 

Conductor — Rudolph  Berliner. 

Director  of  Olio — George  S.  Wood. 

Costumer — John  L*  Weber. 

Master  of  Properties — Rex  DeRoselli. 

Committee  on  Publicity — Roy  O.  Randall, 
chairman ;  John  U.  Higinbotham,  Opie  Read, 
Stanley  Waterloo. 


Committee  on  Finance — Edward  H.  Fox, 
chairman ;  H.  S.  Hyman,  B.  Beecher  Osborne. 

Committee  on  Posters— Mark  Hayne,  chair- 
man ;  Robert  J.  Campbell,  Karl  MacVitty,  Jo- 
seph Deutsch. 

Committee  on  Program — Theodore  Van  R. 
Ashcroft,  chairman ;  W.  G.  Harding,  C.  A. 
Briggs. 

Committee  on  Music — Edward  C.  Moore, 
chairman ;  Benedict  Papot,  George  L.  Louis. 

Committee  on  Production — W.  J.  Way, 
chairman ;  Harry  Daniel,  Otis  B.  Thayer, 
Stanly  H.  Twist,  Geo.  S.  Wood,  Edward  H. 
Fox,  Charles  N.  Wheeler. 

Committee  on  Art — Charles  Lederer,  chair- 
man ;  Robert  A.  Ward,  C.  A.  Briggs,  Sidney 
Smith,  L.  R.  Merrell. 


BOOSTERS'  COMMITTEE, 

1,258  Members  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago. 


SOME  OF  THE  SONGS  SUNG  IN  THE  "SCOOP" 


Air:     BILLY. 

For  when  we  spout  we  always  spout  for  Billy, 

Cause  Billy  tells  us  how  to  spout ; 
And  when  we  shout  we  always  shout  for  Billy, 

Cause  Billy  tells  us  how  to  shout. 
And  when  we  vote  we  always  vote  for  Billy, 

We  wouldn't  vote  for  Ted  or  Bob ; 
For  if  we  win,  for  if  we  win, 

We  all  will  get  a  job. 


Air:    YIP  AYE  ADDY. 

Bob  LaFollette,  hooray,  hooray ! 
Bob  LaFollette,  hooray. 
We'll  give  Teddy  an  awful  toss 
For  handing  Robert  the  double-cross. 
Bob  LaFollette,  hooray,  hooray, 
For  Bob's  in  the  fighting  to  stay. 
Mister  Taft  we  won't  miss, 
Ted  was  never  like  this — 
Bob  LaFollette,  hooray ! 


Air:     SCHOOL   DAYS. 

School  days,  school  days,  good  old  Princeton 

rule  days, 

Readin'  an'  'ritin'  an'  'rithmetic 
They  are  much  better  than  Teddy's  stick. 
We  are  for  Wilson  all  the  time ; 
Let's  put  a  stop  to  this  hound-dog  rime. 
Fix  up  the  slate  and  help  him  climb — 
The  rest  are  a  passel  of  kids. 


Air: 


GIVE  MY  REGARDS  TO  BROAD- 
WAY. 

Give  my  regards  to  Congress, 

Remember  me  to  Washington. 
Tell  all  the  gang  on  Pennsylvania  Ave. 

That  I  would  like  to  run. 
Whisper  of  how  I'm  yearning 

To  mingle  with  the  oldtime  throng. 
Give  my  regards  to  Washington — 

And  say  I'll  be  there  ere  long. 


Air:     EV'RYBODY'S  DOING  IT. 

Ev'ryone's  a  candidate, 

Candidate, 

Candidate, 

Ev'ryone's  a  candidate, 

Candidate, 

Candidate, 

See  that  Ragtime  Teddy  over  there, 

See    Bill    Taft    just    a-tearin'    out    his    hair, 

See    Bill    Taft    just    a-tearin'   out    his    hair, 

Tear   the   hair 

From  the  bear, 

Teddy  bear — There  ! 

Ev'ryone's  a  candidate, 

Candidate, 

Candidate, 

Ev'ryone's  a  candidate, 

Candidate, 

Candidate, 

Ain't  that  racket  breakin'  your  heart? — 

Taft  and  Teddy  bustin'  apart, 

Wilson,  Harmon,  Underwood,  Clark — 

Ev'ryone's  a  candidate, 

Ev'ryone's  a  candidate, 

Ev'ryone's  a  candidate,  now. 


So  fearlessly  we  gather  all  the  news— 
The  murders,  scandals,  pictures,  interviews. 
Oh,  laurels,  medals,  halos,  too, 
On  us  the  constant  readers  strew — 
Again  the  chorus  let  it  ring : 


PRESS    CLUB    SONG. 
By   George   L.   Louis. 

The  pen  is  mightier  than  the  sword,  'tis  said. 
So  heroes  who  in  battlefields  have  bled 
Must  hie  themselves  to  secondary  place 
\Yhile  we  the  spotlight  calcium  proudly  face. 
The  loud  reports  of  cannon  in  the  fray 
Compare  not  with  reporters  of  today— 
Oh,  sing  the  song  of  Press  Club  joys, 
The  song  that's  sung  by  Press  Club  boys. 
Then  altogether  let  us  sing : 

Of  the  press  the  men  are  we; 

The  news,  the  views,  the  poetry, 

That  brings  delight 

Each  morn  and  night 

From  our  pencils  fall. 

To  the  muses  who  inspire 

Raise  your   steins,  yea,  raise  them  high'r — 

Sing  out  the  toast, 

Ring  out  the  boast ; 

Goodfellowship  one  and  all! 

The  grafters  fear  our  deadly  aim  and  fire; 
How  often  we  arouse  their  frenzied  ire. 
We  seek  the  truth  in  all  that  may  occur 
For  peace,  for  justice  and  for  twenty  per. 


THE   PRESS    CLUB    MAN. 

(Copyright,    1912,    by    Malloch    &    Dingman.) 

While  you're  drinking  your  toast 
And  are  making  your  boast 
Of  the  men  who  do  most 

For  the  nation; 
While  you're  singing  your  song 
Of  the  brave  and  the  strong 
To  whom  rightly  belong 

Admiration ; 

While  the  leaders  you  cheer 
In  a  president's  year 
Who  in  parties  so  dear 

Have  arrayed  them — 
Let  us  cheer  once  again 
For  the  newspaper  men, 
For  the  boys  with  the  pen 

Who  have  made  them. 

Chorus. 

The  Press  Club  man,  the  Press  Club  man — 

Here's  to  the  Press  Club  man ! 
Here's  to  the  girl  his  eyes  adore : 
Here's  to  the  sheet  he  scribbles  for— 
Oh. 

Whatever  the  line, 
It's  the  life  for  mine — 
Here's  to  the  Press  Club  man ! 

In  a  panicky  year 
When  a  panic  is  here 
And  the  stockholders  fear 

For  their  meney, 
There's  a  Bill  or  a  Bob 
Or  a  Jack  on  the  job 
Who  refuses  to  sob 

And. is  sunny. 
He's  an  optimist,  he, 
Of  the  highest  degree, 
Who  refuses  to  be 

Melancholy — 
For,  wherever  he  goes, 
Song  and  story  he  sows, 
Making    friends    of   his    foes 

With  a  jolly. 


Prominent 
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friends—  men  who  have  contributed  to  the  success  of  the 
"Press  Club  Scoop"  by  permitting  the  use  of  their  names 
and  submitting  themselves  to  the  skill  of  the  cartoonist- 
all  to  make  this  entertainment  the  most  notable  event 
of  its  kind  ever  known. 


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WALTER  E.  SCHMIDT 


JOHN  S.  RUNNELLS 


JOHN  W.   ECKHART 


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JAMES   E.  PLEW. 


WM.  J.  URQUEHART. 


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by  a  natk 

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upon  to  carry  off  water  o 
unequalled  since  constrw 
present    levee  system. 
The  efforts  which  have 

porations 

to  protect  the  lands  am 

commerci 

ties  adjacent  to  the  lower 

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ing  of  levees  along  its  ba 

ness  cor 

municipal  or  state,  contro 

creatures 

ban  km  en  ts    being   made    i 

boards,  and  as  a  resu  t  t 

porate  re 

lack  of  uniformity  and  a 

such  law 

of  any  fixed   standard  of 

to  this 

tion.      Of  recent   years   t 

America 

government  has  lent  some 

the  Civic 

assistance   and   supemsib 

efforts  se 

protecting  the  communiti 

are     Th 

valley  of  the  lower  Mississ 

of    the 

At  the  present  time  it  is 

rational 

that  between  ten  and  twe 

these  su 

ducemen 

their  spe. 

lion  law 

both  pha 

Manufacturers'  News 


GLENN    &    COMPANY 

7$  We»t  Monroe  Si      -  CHICAGO.  ILL. 


the 


MANUFACTURERS'    NEWS 

wound  as  may  result  from  the  re- 
loval  of  a  hangnail.  More  than  that 
will  not  accomplish.  But  even  so. 
mfacturing  interest  of  the 
most  completely  "skinned," 

little  for  itself  as  to  collod- 
It 


under  any  obligation  of  gr 


ny  support  he 

good  bill 


"Ha 


>rable" 


u  th*  POM  Ofca  M 

i  ."     •(    U.:  ,  •     1      111 


THE  NEWSPAPER  STRIKE. 
Credit  must  be  given  to  the  Chi- 
cago newspapers  for  their  manage- 


far  They  have  hung  I 
considering  their  past 
the  police  and  the  autl 
ha 


d  with 
ts  they 
Prac- 


might  wish  that  the 
Governor  Deneen  w< 
short  step  further  than  to  offer  ac- 
cess to  his  little  bottle  of  collodion 
or  "new-skin"  and  would  open  a  way 
whereby  the  manufacturing  inter- 
est of  the  state  could  become  the 
beneficiary  of  a  skin-grafting  opera- 
tion to  restore  its  stripped  pelt  But 
that  is  a  vain  hope. 

Mr.    Deneen,    as    all    the    world 
knows,  will  have  naught  to  do  with 


kably  we! 

tically  every  employer  is  a 
see  them  win  because  they 
so  clearly  have  right  on  their  side. 
It  is  a  wonder  that  some  of  those  re- 
form people  that  the  newspapers  are 
always  encouraging  do  not  come 
along  and  suggest  arbitration  or 

that  will  give  the  pressmen  and  the 
other  unions  joining  in  the  fight  half 
of  what  they  want.  The  fight  is  a 
great  deal  more  difficult  than  ap- 
pears on  the  surface.  The  public 
only  sees  the  street  corner  part  of  it. 
They  forget  about  the  troubles  in- 
side the  office  and  the  difficulties 
of  getting  material  with  which  to 
produce  a  paper.  A  good  many  peo- 
ple have  learned  for  the  first  time 


He 


i.  Go* 


-  Den 


"Hon 


that  the 


support  a  daily  paper      The  strike 
has  given  the  man  who  sleeps  half 


:  being,  is  . 
guided    and '  swayed    by    his    con- 
science.  His  is  a  statutory  conscience, 

if  they  would  keep  out  of  jail,  to- 

ing  right  which  any  statute  penal- 
izes, and  nothing  wrong  which-  no 
statute  forbids. 

To  illustrate  what  we  mean  when 
we  say  that  Gov    Oeneen  will  not 

practice  charity  if  it  "begins  at 
home,"  we  need  only  to  allude  to 
several  well-known  facts  of  history, 

•apidly  does  whitewash  rum  a  polit- 


Gov    Deneen  for  the  origination  of 
that  bill  or  fo: 
lend  it. 
The  Ap  Mado 

though,  if  passed,  it  will  cover  and 
protect  only  a  small  part  of  the  sur- 
face which  so  far  as  the  manufac- 

been  "skinned"  and  left  raw  by  the 
compensation  bill. 

But  Mr  Deneen's  support  of  the 
Ap  Madoc  bill  is  simply  another  in- 
stance of  attempting  to  "carry  water 
on  both  shoulders7'  and  to  please 
everybody  in  his  own  selfish  inter- 
He  may  well  fear,  and  doubtless 
does  fear  what  the  manufacturers 
will  do  to  him  on  election  day,  and 

coating  to  a  bitter  pill  he'prepared 
for  them  in  his  workmen's  compen- 
sation bill  which  was  passed  at  the 
last  regular  session  at  his  mstiga- 

ly.  the  same  lawyer  who  urged  and 
drew  his  ill-considered  and  unjust 


workmen's 


ation  bill 


WHY  JJtK  DOWN  NOW. 
Citizens  have  been  beaten  up  re- 
cently in  Chicago  for  no  other  rea- 
son than  stepping  op  to  a  newsbox 
and  buying  a  paper  from  a  person 

than  the  negative  one  of  not  belong- 
a  labor  union.     They  hav> 


the  j 

SKINNED  AND   COLLODIO 

In  having  had  the  legist; 
a    poorly    di 
workmen's 
in  now  tardily 

able 


al  boss 
big  "R." 

(1)    Taking   Peca:     Lawful,   al-       also  been  attacked  on  elevated  trams 
though  in  violation  of  a  pre-election        ind  street  cars  for  buying  papers, 
•epeated  on   the       These  assaults  are  incidents  attend* 
iad  been  unlaw-       ing  the  so-called  newspaper 

We  resp — *-"-  : !—  :' 

teemed 
anything 


>pectfully  tnqu 

:ompel  public  officials 
whose  duty  it  is  to'  prosecute  such 
assaults  to  punish  those  guilty  ? 
The  newspapers  in  Chicago  make 


make    public  officials 
they  try  to  convey  that  impres- 
10  the  public.    The  Hearst  pa- 

listration,  the  sheriff  and  the 

:  the  Daily  News  with  the  tn- 
ittent  aid  of  the  esteemed  Tri- 
,  controls  Hon.  Chas  S.  De- 
,  the  only  state 
:rn  time 


radically  cf&rgem.  You  cannot 
imagine  New  York  and  Texas  agree- 
ing upon  a  uniform  antitrust  law 
or  New  Jersey  and  Oklahoma  agree- 
ing upon  a  law  for  the  organization 
of  business  corporations 

Whether  the  federal  law  should 
make  incorporation  under  it  volun- 
tary or  involuntary  is  fairly  debatable 
There  are  strong  arguments  on  each 
side  To  make  it  immediately  and 
completely  effective,  the  compulsory 

an  adequate  scheme  of  publicity,  it 
might  net  be  necessary  in  the  first  in- 


J.  NEGRESCON. 


JAMES    LEVY. 


LAWRENCE   HEYWORTH 


DARIUS  MILLER. 


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FRED  W.  UPHAM 


GEORGE  M.  REYNOLDS 


JAMES  O.  HEYWORTH 


HENRY   ERICSSON 


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CHARLES   W.   VAIL 


HOMER  A.  STILLWELL 


JAMES   MATHEW   SHEEAN. 


T.  D.  HUFF. 


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JOHN  ERICSON 


'CAUSE  DAD, HE'S 
OUT  OF  A  JOB,  Y'SEE 
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MRS.   ELLA  WOOD   DEAN 
AS   CARMEN. 


The  Breezy,  Out  -  of  -  Doors  American 
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culled  from  the  mass  of  the  mediocre. 

American  Film  Manufacturing  Co. 

Ashland  Block,  CHICAGO 

High  class  writers  are  requested  to  submit  scenarios. 
We  pay  just  a  little  better  than  card  rates. 


M.  F.  RITTENHOUSE,  President 
J.  W.  EMBREE,  Vice  President 


C.    A.    FLANAGIN,   Secretary 
H.  W.   CHANDLER,  Treasurer 


Rittenhouse  &  Embree  Co. 

LUMBER 

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CHICAGO 


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YELLOW  PINE   MILLS 


RICHTON,  MISS. 


WARREN,  ARK. 


MOXLEY'S 

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Inspected 


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Costs  About 
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Bowling  Alleys  DeLuxe  and  Billiard  and 
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THE 

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Branches  in  all  the  principal  cities  of  the 
United    States,    Canada,    France   and    Mexico. 

Chicago  Office  and  Salesroom: 
328  SO.  WABASH  AVE. 


TRY 

The  "Castro"  cigar,  a  product 
of  the  finest  Havana  Tobacco 
and  skilled  workmanship. 

ON  SALE 

PRESS  CLUB 

OF 

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William  D.  Castro 

MANUFACTURER 

Office  8  E.  Michigan  Street 


SOUTH  HAVEN  LINE 


In  connection  with  Michigan  Central  R.  R.,  Kalamazoo,  Lake  Shore  &    Chicago    R'y 
•via  South  Haven,  Mich.,  to  all  points  east  and  west. 

EFFECTIVE  MAY  4,  1912 

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10:30  p.  m.  Saturday. 
LEAVE  SOUTH  HAVEN,  9:00  p.  m.  Daily  except  Saturday. 

FARE  ONE  WAY,  -  $1.OO;      ROUND  TRIP,  -  $1.5O 


SHORT    LINE   TO    ALL   MICHIGAN 

Kalamazoo     -         -         -         -         $1.63         Jackson 
Battle  Creek       -  2.09         Paw  Paw 


$2.99 
1.55 


Docks  North  End  Clark  Street  Bridge. 


Phone  Franklin  814 


Harrison  3680 
Automatic  8550 


.  A.  Donohue  &  Co. 

Printers,  Binders 
and  Publishers 


701-727  Dearborn  St.,  CHICAGO 


The  Biggest  Scoop  in  Chicago 

FRANCISCO  GOYA 

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in  a  most  Sanitary  shop,  of  highest  grade 
Havana  Tobacco  and  individual  hand 
workmen  who  spend  all  their  money  in 
this  city. 

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BECAUSE  IT'S  THE  GREAT 

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Enjoy  a  good  time,  good  eating,  drink- 
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CHOP  SUEY  A  SPECIALTY 

Open  Day  and  Night.  Oriental  service  and 
decoration.  Music  by  the  superb  Bayard  Fallos 
Quartette.  After-Theatre  and  Dinner  Parties 
given  special  attention.  Also  catering. 

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high  grade,  and  no  harsh  alkali  to  raise  havoc  with  sensi- 
tive skins.     This  handy,  floating,  oval  cake  of  soap 
perfection  costs  but  5c. 


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433,781 

was  the  daily  average  circu- 
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This  means  that 


Over  Two  Million 


people  in  Chicago  and  vicinity  read  the 

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No  such  purchasing  power  was  ever 
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to  cover  this  immense  field. 


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BANKERS 


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FRANK  VOIGTMANN,  President  HOLLIS  E.  SHIREY,  Third  Vice  President 

C.  M.  FAIRCHII.D,  Vice  President  ROBERT  VOIGTMANN,  Secretary 

LESLIE  VOIGI'MANN,  Second  Vice  President  0.  H.  IMAN,  Superintendent 


Telephone  North  1305  -  1306 

Voigtmann  &  Company 

445-459  West  Erie   Street 

CHICAGO 


Metal  Windows        Metal  Doors 


CONGRHSS   HOTEL  AMD  A  MM  E>C 

MICHIGAN  BOULEVARD  &  CONGRESS  ST. 


Orchestra 

FERDINAND  STEINDEL  PIANIST  &  DIRECTOR-MAX  STEINDEL,  CELLIST-ALBIN  STEINDEL.VIOUNIST 
PL  A  YS  AFTERNOON  &  EVENING 


ON  sultry  summer  days  the  gratifying  coolness  of  the  Louis  XVI 
Room   of   the   Congress   Hotel   and  Annex   makes   it   ideal   for 
luncheon  or  afternoon  tea,  for  dinner  or  after  the   theatre.     A 
most  modern  cooling  and  ventilating  plant  insures  a  delightful  tempera- 
ture at  all  times.     Distinctive  in  all  its  appointments,  the  Louis  XVI 
Room   offers   a   cuisine   and   service   without   comparison   in   America. 


Have  You  Seen 


Finest  ^-acres 
at  lowest  prices. 


The   Illinois  Central  R.  R.  Subdivision? 


Flossmoor  Depot  from  Between  blocks  7  and  8 

Chicago's   Highest    Grade    Subdivision 


50  minutes  from  Randolph  St. 


50  trains  daily— 60  rides  $6.75 


The  I.  C.  R.  R.  bought  and  highly  improved  this  property  in  or  'er  to  add  to  its 
famous  suburban  traffic. 

The  property  was  so  cheap  that  we  sold  312  lots  in  30  days. 

We  have  28  of  these  half  acre  lots  left. 

They  are  from  100  to  200  feet  wide  by  200  to  230  feet  deep  and 
will  be  sold  at  $600  to  $1500.  (Most  of  them  100x200  for  $800). 
Including  all  street  improvements,  sewer,  water,  macadam  street 
and  walk.  Fruit  and  shade  trees.  No  special  assessments. 

Terms  $25  cash;  $10  per  month. 

The  I.  C.  R.  R.  cannot  use  the  lots  but  wants  them  sold  at  cost  to  those  who 
are  likely  to  live  on  them  and  patronize  the  suburban  trains. 

No  speculators  desired.     High  grade  building  restrictions. 
Phone  for  free  tickets  or  go  with  us  any  time  by  appointment. 

ACT  QUICK— THE  28  WILL  SOON  BE  GONE. 

F.  C.  WOOD  &  CO. 

106  N.  La  Salle  St. 

Room  38.  Phone  Main  3164.  Automatic  33620. 


TELEPHONES! 

CENTRAL  3202 
AUTOMATIC  9487 


Tom  N.  Donnelly  &  Co 


LOAN  and  DIAMOND 


BROKERS 


24  N.  Dearborn  Street  Chicago 

Bet.  Washington  and  Madison 


The  Wagner  Letter 

ISSUED   SEMI-MONTHLY,  COVERS  WHEAT,  CORN, 

OATS,    PROVISIONS,    SECURITIES,    COTTON,    HAY 

AND  FEED  ON  REQUEST 


E.   H^.   JVagner   &  Company 

GRAIN,  PROVISIONS,  STOCKS,  COTTON 
97-98-99-100  BOARD  OF  TRADE 

Chicago 


Engravers  of  High 
Class  Wood  Cuts 
for  Magazine,  Cata- 
log and  Newspaper 


Artists 

Electrotypers  and 
Photographers 


C.  P.  ZACHER  & 
COMPANY 

180   NORTH   MARKET   ST. 
CHICAGO 

Phones  Franklin  2998   and   2999 


Wood  Engraving  From  Painting 


Chicago  Laboratory 


8  NORTH  STATE  STREET. 


Telephone  6239  Central 


A  laboratory  for  physicians  in  which  all  work  is  done 
by  physicians.  Fully  equipped  for  all  kinds  of  clinical 
examinations.  Wassermann  Test.  Preparation  of 
Autogenous  Vaccines.  Medico-legal  Examinations  a 
Specialty.  ::::::::: 

Write    us    for   fee   tables   and  for  information  regard 
ing   means    of    procuring    specimens    for    examination. 

RALPH  W.  WEBSTER,  M.  D.,  Ph.  D. 

Director  Chemical  Department. 


THOMAS  L.  DAGG,  M.  D. 

Director  Pathological  Department. 


C.  CHURCHILL  CROY,  M.  D. 

Director  Bacteriological  Department. 


ALYS  B.  CROY,  M.  D. 

Assistant. 


Graham  &  Sons 

Bankers 


TELEPHONE  WAR  ASH  38  1O 


HAMBURG -BREMEN  FIRE 
INSURANCE  CO. 

Suite  1821—175  West  Jackson  Blvd. 

Insurance  Exchange  Building,  Chicago 

WITKOWSKY  &  AFFELD         ....        General  Agents 


Established   1854 


Colonial 

Trust  and  Savings 
Bank 

La  Salle  St.,  N.  E.  Cor.  Adams 


3  per   cent   paid   on   savings 


L  C  M.  A, 


Illinois  Commercial  Men's  Association 

Accident  Insurance  for  Traveling  Men 
MEMBERSHIP  FEE  $2.00  Cash  Surplus  $250,000.00 


BENEFITS 


$25.00 — Weekly  indemnity  for  104  weeks.  $2,500 — Accidental    loss    of    one  entire 

$5,000 — In  case  of  accidental  death.  hand  or  entire  foot. 

$5,000 — Accidental  loss  of  both  hands  or  $10,000 — If    you    meet    with    accidental 

both  feet.  death  while  riding  as  a  passen- 

$5,000 — Accidental  loss  of  both  eyes.  ger  in  a  passenger  car  of  a  pas- 

$5,000 — Accidental    loss    of    one   entire  senger  train  propelled  by  steam. 

hand  and  one  entire  foot.  $  1,250 — Accidental  loss  of  one  eye. 


The  Largest  Traveling  Men's  Organization  in  the  World. 
A  Year's  Insurance  in  I.  C.  M.  A.  has  never  cost  more  than  $9. 

MEMBERSHIP  98,000.  Benefits  paid  since  organization  over  $3,000,000 

Write  for  blanks  and  farther  particulars 

R.  A.  CAVENAUGH, Secy  and  Treas.,  332  S.  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 


LEXJNCTON  HOTEL 

Michigan  Boulevard 

Chicago,  III. 

The  Lexington  is  located 
just  outside  of  the  con- 
gested loop  district,  with- 
in two  blocks  of  the  lake 
where  it  is  cool  and  pleas- 
ant, and  but  ten  minutes' 
ride  on  two  electric  car 
lines  from  the  shopping 
and  theatre  district.  One 
block  from  L  station. 

J.  E.  Montrosc  j  D_. 
Charles  McHu4hiPr°Pnctors 

T.  V.  Strain,  Manager 


STUDEBAKER 
AUTOMOBILES 

E.  M.  F.  -  3O         FLANDERS  --  2O 

$11OO.OO  SNOO.OO 

STUDEBAKER  ELECTRICS 

S17SO.OO 
Gasoline   and    Electric    Delivery    Wagons 

Studebaker  Corporation 

21st  and  Michigan  Avenue 

Chicago 


John  T.  Cunningham 

Manufacturer  of 

FINE  ICE  CREAMS 

2311-2313  West  Van  Buren  St. 

TELEPHONE  WEST  752 

Chicago 


BRANCH:     W.    Ravenswood    Park    and    Berteau    Avenue 
Telephone  Lake  View  6102 


ESSENTIALLY 

-"-^  a  Bachelor's 
Laundry.  Socks 
darned,  buttons 
sewed  on.  All  kinds 
of  repairing  free. 


EXCELSIOR  LAUNDRY  COMPANY 

66    East    22nd    Street 

Telephone  Calumet   157 


CHICAGO  and  NORTH  WESTERN  TERMINAL 

TEA  ROOM  DINING  ROOM  LUNCH  ROOM 

JESSE  M.  MARQUETTE,  Proprietor  Telephone  Main  2755  CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 


The  Main  Dining  Room,  adjoining  the  waiting  room  on  the  second  floor,  is  a  tastefully  appointed 
place,  with  room  for  two  hundred  or  more  guests,  and  with  a  cuisine  second  to  none  in  Chicago.  The 
service  is  equal  to  that  of  any  loop  Cafe  and  the  prices  are  no  higher. 

Lunch  Room  on  first  floor  Tea   Room   for  Ladies   on  third  floor 


LOUIS  EMRATH 

General  Machinist 

Newspaper,  Stereo- 
typing and 
Printing  Machinery 


JOBBING  A  SPECIALTY 


315  W.  Washington  Street 

Second  Floor,  rear 

CHICAGO 

TELEPHONE    MAIN    4163 


Wm.D.Algeo&Co. 


Manufacturers 
of  the 


La  Flor 
De  Algeo 


1635  Van  Buren  Street 


S.  W.  Corner  Marshfield  Ave. 


Mocdy  &  Waters  have  kept  the 
pie  standard  in  Chicago  up  to 
the  "kind  that  mother  makes" 
for  40  years.  The  result  is  that 
the  Moody &Waters  quality  gives 
Chicago  the  world's  best  pies. 


Moody  &  Waters  Company 

Phone  Monroe  865 

IIO7       West       Congress       Street 


40th  Avenue 


y 

The  Underground   Mains  of  the 

.Cosmopolitan  Electric  Company 

b 

•fj  -sa        are  now  supplying  Electricity  for  all  forms  of    LIGHTING    AND 

£  INDUSTRIAL  POWER  throughout  the  territory  indicated. 

|  The  service  is  eminently  RELIABLE,  EFFICIENT  and  highly 

«  ECONOMICAL.     Our  smallest  consumer  uses  one  16  c.  p.  lamp.     Our 

largest  uses  2,000  Horse  Power. 

These,  and  the  thousands  in  between,  are  well  SATISFIED.     A 
phone  call  or  card  p1aces  our  Engineers  and  Estimators  at 
your  service. 

Unless  you  can  afford  to  mine  your  own  coal,  you  must 
seriously  consider. 


COSMOPOLITAN  POWER  SERVICE 

GENERAL  OFFICES,  122  SOUTH  MICHIGAN  BLVD. 

Address  the  \  RANDOLPH  3341 

GENERAL  CONTRACT  AGENT  PHONES  ,  AUTOMATIC 64612 


20  MILE  TEAM  BORAX 

THE  WORLD'S  GREATEST  CLEANSER 
IT  PURIFIES  THE  HOME 


OLIVER  &  CO 


Down  Town 
Real  Estate 

42  North  Dearborn  Street 


TCbe  TCRooblawn  Gate 

63rd  St.  and  Cottage  Grove  Avenue 


Cuisine  Unexcelled  Popular  Prices 

Orchestra  Music  Evenings 


nas 

Giant  spikes 
of  bloom 
make  grand 
flower  beds. 


Geraniums, 

Cobaea(%t!ralPansies, 
Salvia,  Asters,Verbenas 


Tomato,  Cabbage  and 
Cauliflower  Plants 


31-33  W.  Randolph  Street. 


JOHN  L.  WEBER       HUBERT  L.  WEBER 

Phone  Central  6292 

Automatic  41-681 


Absolutely    Sanitary   Costumes 
and    Wigs    for    Sale    or    Rent 

Chicago  Costume 
Works 

Importers  and  Manufacturers 

Theatrical  Costumes,    Tights, 

Supplies,  Make-Up  Properties, 

Scenery,  Etc. 


Amateurs  Advised  and  Supplied 


20  Years'  Professional  Experience 


143  North    Dearborn  Street 


Opposite  Cort  Theatre 


Istablished     1875  —  E. 


l_ehrr»a  n  r» 


STATE.  ADAMS  and   DFARBORN  STREETS 


Phone.  Private  Exchange  3 

We  Are 

Not 
Satisfied 

Until 
You  Are 


The   most  dependable   merchandise    at    the    lowest 
prices  is  the  basis  of  our  success. 


A  Modern  Candy  Plant 


.,..,.  -JEiJi 


The  Home  of  Cracker  Jack,  Angelas 

Marshmallows,  Chocolates  and  Pon 

Boos  and  Over  750  Other  Varieties 

of  Reliable  Confections 

This  Sunlight,  Sanitary  Candy  Productory 
was  Established  in  1872.  The  Present  Building 
was  Completed  in  1910,  which  is  built  of  brick, 
stone  and  steel.  Heavy  mill  construction  style 
with  hardwood  floors.  Open  space  all  around. 
Light  and  ventilation  perfect.  Automatic  fire 
sprinkler  protection  in  all  departments.  Vacuum 
system,  steam  heating  and  lighted  by  1852  lights. 
Pure  sparkling  water  from  two  artesian  wells, 
and  thoroughly  equipped  with  rr.odcrn  ar.d 
special  machinery  driven  by  80  electric  motors. 
Eight  long  distance  and  50  office  ar.d  factory 
telephones.  The  floor  space  of  the  buildings 
equals  seven  acres.  High  class  modern  buildings 
where  pure  wholesome  confections  are  made. 

Rueckheim   Bros.   &   Eckstein 

CRACKER  JACK  AND  CANDY  MAKERS 
Chicago 


J.  P.  BLACK 

(^  COMPANY 


INCORPORATED 

PRINTERS 
ARTISTIC 


P  HO  NES 
FRANKLIN 
2662-2663 


NORTH 
M4RKET 
STREET 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 


Phone  Canal  9 


FOR 


A  Case  of  Good  Judgment 


Phone  Harrison  7 

CARVER   &  WILKIE 

AND 

CARROLL  McMILLEN 

TAILORS 

STEGER  BUILDING 

JACKSON  BOULEVARD  AND  WABASH  AVE. 
CHICAGO 


TELEPHONES 

HARRISON    3395  HARRISON  5142 

AUTOMATIC  64395  HARRISON  5667 


Peterson  Linotyping  Co. 

BOOK,  NEWSPAPER  MAGAZINE 

AND    CATALOGUE    COMPOSITION 


531-537    Plymouth  Place 


PRINTING  FOR  THE  BUSINESSMAN 


The  Ryan  &  Hart  Co. 

324-326  Federal  Street 
CHICAGO 


p,  (  Wabash   490- Private  Exchange  All  Depts. 

Phonesl  Aufo.  62-809 


John  M.  Ryan 

President 


Geo.  H.  Hart 

Vice-Pres. 


Elmer  E.  Buchan 

Secretary 


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Established  1863 


C.  H.  Weaver  &  Co. 

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 


Apples  Potatoes  Peaches 

Tomatoes  Melons  Berries 

Grapes  Cabbage  Celery 

S.  Potatoes  Onions  Cranberries 

Beans  Dried  Fruits  Nuts 

65  and  67  West  South  Water  St. 


Ch 


ic  a  go 


REFER  TO  Commercial  National  Bank,  Chicago.  Any 
Wholesale  House  in  Chicago.  Commercial  Agency 
Reports.  Irving  National  Exchange  Bank.  N.  Y.  City. 


TELEPHONE  GRACELAND  1112 


The  George  Wittbold  Company 

737  BUCKINGHAM  PLACE 
CHICAGO 


HOTEL  SHERMAN 

City  Hall  Square 
CHICAGO 


Q  Hotel  Sherman  invites  consideration  of  its  tmequaled 
facilities  for  banquets,  balls,  luncheons,  dinners,  wed- 
dings and  similar  functions. 

^  Hotel  Sherman  has  eleven  private  dining  rooms  and 
banquet  halls,  ranging  in  capacity  from  six  persons  to 
one  thousand. 


COLLEGE   INN 

America's   Most  Famous   Restaurant 
is  in  the 

HOTEL    SHERMAN 


Corner  of  CLARK  and  RANDOLPH  STS. 

to  6^  Safe  Securities  for  Sale 

Call  or  Write  for  Our  Latest  List  of 

Choice  Chicago  First  Mortgages 

In  Any  Amount,  also  $500  and  $1,000 

, 


GUARANTEED  GOLD  BONDS  T°E 


Buy  Pure  Compressed  Yeast 


If  The  discussion  about  using  starch  in  Compressed  Yeast  has  reached 
the  point  in  the  United  States  of  a  decision  forcing  those  who  use  it 
to  declare  the  fact  on  wrapper  or  label.  That  is  how  we  administer  the 
Food  Laws  in  this  country. 

11  In  Austria  where  they  do  things  more  thoroughly,  the  chemists  of  the 
Royal  Experiment  Station  of  Vienna  investigated  the  question  for  some 
years  and  finally  reported  against  the  use  of  Starch  in  Compressed 
Yeast  for  the  reason  that  when  mixed  with  Yeast  "Starch  is  liable  during 
a  certain  stage  of  the  deterioration  to  hide  Putrefaction  of  the  Yeast  and 
thereby  favors  the  marketing  of  products  unwholesome  and  dangerous  to 
the  public  health." 

1^  Thereupon  the  Austrian  Government  promptly 
passed  a  law  prohibiting  altogether  the  use  of 
Starch  in  Yeast. 

We  do  not  use  Starch  in   Yeast. 


A.  P.  CALLAHAN  &  COMPANY 

24O7  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago.  Illinois 


PIE    TALK! 


PURE  FOOD  LAWS  are  useless  unless  properly  enforced,  and  the  efforts  of  honest 
manufacturers  count  for  naught  while  the  unscrupulous  acquire  wealth  by  the  use  of 
inferior  ingredients  and  misrepresentation.  Thus  defying  the  spirit,  and  not  infrequently 
the  letter  of  the  law  designed  for  your  protection. 

We  are  manufacturers  of  Pies  —  GOOD,  PURE  PIES,  and  have  been  engaged  in  this 
occupation  right  here  in  Chicago  for  a  period  of  43  years.  The  dealer  is  required  to  pay 
more  for  our  products  because  they  are  better.  Made  from  the  purest  raw  materials,  in 
the  cleanest,  and  largest  bakery  of  its  kind  in  the  world. 

Help  the  enforcement  of  Pure  Food  Laws  —  encourage  the  manufacturers  of  Honest  Foods 
—  you  do  both  when  you  demand  CASE  &  MARTIN'S  PIES  of  your  restauranteur 
or  dealer,  and  finally  don't  take  our  word  for  quality  and  purity  but  visit  our  bakery  and 
see  for  yourself.  It's  always  open. 


CASE    &     MARTIN     CO. 

Wholesale 
Bakers  of  Connecticut   Pies. 


ESTABLISHED  1869 


WOOD  &  WALNUT  STS. 


JOHN  EBERSON 

ENGINEER  ON  WASTE 


"You  Cannot  Make' 
'Neither  Can  You  Destroy 

"Anything" 
"In   Ihis   World" 


Illinois  Life  Insurance  Co. 

CHICAGO 


JAMES  W.  STEVENS,  President 


Greatest  Illinois  Company 

Is  now  located  in  its  new  Head  Office,  third  floor, 

Number  10  LA  SALLE  ST.,  at  Madison 

Those  desiring  proposals  for  Life  Assurance,  Annu- 
ities, Incomes  or  Survivorships  will  receive  courteous 
attention. 


Telephone  Calumet  4510 

ROGERS  &  SMITH  COMPANY 

DESIGNERS  PRINTERS  BINDERS 


COMPLETE  FACILITIES  FOR  THE 
PRINTING  OF  ALL  KINDS  OF 
ADVERTISING  LITERATURE 


222-1224-1226    WABASH    AVENUE 
CHICAGO 


H.  M.  Byllesby  &  Company 

ENGINEERS 

OPERATORS  and  MANAGERS 
of  PUBLIC  UTILITIES 

Examinations    and    Reports 


Utility 

Properties 
Financed 

Utility 

Securities 
Bought 
and  Sold 


CHICAGO 

New  York  Portland,  Ore. 


Electric  Cooking  Devices 
Are  Universally  Popular 

The  man  keeping  bachelor  apartments  finds  in  elec- 
tric cooking  appliances  an  ever  ready  means  of  prepar- 
ing dishes  for  company  which  may  drop  in  on  him. 
Electric  cooking  utensils  become  as  necessary  to  him 
as  to  the  housewife,  or  the  bachelor  girl.  Absolutely 
clean,  these  appliances  are  decidedly  practical  and 
simple.  You  have  only  to  attach  the  connecting  cord, 
and  the  heating  coils  become  hot  in  a  few  seconds. 

The  Electric  Toaster  makes  toast  of  just  the  right 
crispness — toast  that  is  exactly  the  way  you  like  it  best. 
It  toasts  fast  enough  to  serve  three  or  four  persons. 

The  Electric  Coffee  Percolator  makes  ideal  coffee 
with  no  annoyance,  dirt  or  danger.  It  is  less  expensive 
to  operate  and  has  innumerable  advantages  over  coffee 
percolators  of  other  kinds. 

The  Electric  Chafing  Dish  will  prove  a  lasting 
delight,  enabling  the  user  to  prepare  many  delicate 
dishes.  Its  safety,  cleanliness  and  beauty  make  it  a 
treasure  in  any  home. 

ELECTRIC  SHOP-CHICAGO 

Michigan  an.d  Jackson  Boulevard* 

Over  2000  Things  Electrical 


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